Charles Tottenham Loftus, 1st Marquess of Ely, KP, PC (23 January 1738 – 22 March 1806) was an

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peer and politician.

Life

Born Charles Tottenham, he assumed the additional surname of Loftus in 1783, after inheriting the estates of his uncle

Henry Loftus, 1st Earl of Ely Henry Loftus, 1st Earl of Ely Order of St Patrick, KP, Privy Council of Ireland, PC (Ire) (18 November 1709 – 8 May 1783), styled The Honourable from 1751 to 1769 and known as Henry Loftus, 4th Viscount Loftus from 1769 to 1771, was an Angl ...

. He was the only son of Sir John Tottenham, 1st Baronet of Loftus Hall, County Wexford, (died 1786), by Henry Loftus' sister Elizabeth (died 1747). He represented Fethard (County Wexford) in the

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from 1776 to 1783. In the latter year, he stood as Member of Parliament for Wexford Borough, a seat he held until 1785, when he was raised to the

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as Baron Loftus of

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, County Wexford. From 14 January 1789 until 1806 Loftus was one of the joint

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. In 1789 he was furthered honoured with the title Viscount Loftus and in 1794 he was made Earl of Ely. He became Marquess of Ely on 29 December 1800 and was appointed a Knight of the

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on 12 December 1794. In 1801 he was made

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of Long Loftus, Yorkshire in the

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, which entitled him and his successors to a seat in the

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. He married in 1766 Jane Myhill (died 1807), daughter of Robert Myhill, of Killarney, County Kilkenny,Killarney, Co. Kilkenny (a townland), as per her Memorial at Bath Abbey and Mary Billingsley, and had two sons,

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, his heir, and

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