Sir John Tottenham, 1st Baronet (6 July 1714 – 2 January 1787) was an

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politician. Tottenham was the son of Charles Tottenham and his first wife Ellinor Cliffe, daughter of John Cliffe of Mulrankin,

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and Barbara Carr of

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. He sat in the

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as the

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for

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from 1759 and 1760, before representing Fethard between 1767 and 1776.E. M. Johnston-Liik
''MPs in Dublin: Companion to History of the Irish Parliament, 1692-1800''
(Ulster Historical Foundation, 2006), p.127 (Retrieved 25 April 2020). On 18 December 1780 he was created a

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, of Tottenham Green in the

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. He married Hon. Elizabeth Loftus, daughter of

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and Hon. Anne Ponsonby, on 31 December 1736. Tottenham was succeeded in his title by his only son, Charles Tottenham, who assumed the additional surname of Loftus in 1783 and was created

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in 1800. He also had three daughters including Mary, who married Richard Annesley and had issue.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Tottenham, John, 1st Baronet 1714 births 1787 deaths 18th-century Anglo-Irish people Irish MPs 1727–1760 Irish MPs 1761–1768 Irish MPs 1769–1776 Baronets in the Baronetage of Ireland Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Wexford constituencies