Charles Tottenham (1716 – 10 September 1795) was an Irish Member of Parliament. He sat in the

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for Fethard from 1755 to 1760, for

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from 1761 to 1768, for Bannow from 1768 to 1776, for

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from 1776 to 1790 and again for Fethard from 1790 to his death. He was a younger son of Charles Tottenham and his first wife Ellinor Cliffe, daughter of John Cliffe of Mulrankin,

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and Barbara Carr, and younger brother of Sir John Tottenham, 1st Baronet, who married a daughter of

Nicholas Loftus, 1st Viscount Loftus Nicholas Loftus, 1st Viscount Loftus PC (I) (c.1687 – 31 December 1763) was an Anglo-Irish politician and peer. Biography Loftus was the son of Henry Loftus and Anne Crewkern. He served in the Irish House of Commons as the Member of Par ...

and was father of Charles Loftus, 1st Marquess of Ely. Charles also married a daughter of the 1st Viscount Loftus, Anne (born 8 November 1718, died 10 November 1768). Their children included Charles Tottenham, Nicholas Loftus Tottenham and

Ponsonby Tottenham Ponsonby Tottenham (1746 – 13 December 1818) was an Anglo-Irish politician. Biography Tottenham sat in the Irish House of Commons as the Member of Parliament for Fethard between 1779 and 1790, before sitting for Bannow from 1790 and 1797. He ...

, all MPs, and Elizabeth, who married Sir James Hutchinson, 2nd Baronet.

References

* http://www.stirnet.com/HTML/genie/british/tt/tottenham1.htm * https://web.archive.org/web/20090601105535/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/irelandcommons.htm

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