词条 | Nicholas Loftus, 1st Viscount Loftus |
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Loftus was the son of Henry Loftus and Anne Crewkern. He served in the Irish House of Commons as the Member of Parliament for Fethard between 1710 and 1713, Clonmines from 1713 to 1715 and Wexford County between 1715 and 1751. Upon leaving the Commons, Loftus was elevated to the peerage as Baron Loftus, of Loftus Hall in County Wexford in the Peerage of Ireland on 5 October 1751, and assumed his seat in the Irish House of Lords.[2] He was invested as a member of the Privy Council of Ireland in 1753. He was furthered honored when he was created Viscount Loftus of Ely in County Wicklow, also a title in the Irish peerage, on 19 July 1756.[3] He married Hon. Anne Ponsonby, daughter of William Ponsonby, 1st Viscount Duncannon and Mary Moore, in April 1706.[4] They had five children:[5]
Loftus also had two illegitimate children by his Irish housekeeper, May Hernon:
References1. ^John Debrett, Debrett's Peerage of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1820), 922. {{S-start}}{{s-reg|ie}}{{s-new |creation}}{{s-ttl |title=Viscount Loftus|years=1756–1763}}{{s-aft |after=Nicholas Hume-Loftus}}{{s-new |creation}}{{s-ttl |title=Baron Loftus|years=1751–1763}}{{s-aft |after=Nicholas Hume-Loftus}}{{S-end}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Loftus, Nicholas Loftus, 1st Viscount}}2. ^Edward Kimber, The Peerage of Ireland. A Complete View of the Several Orders of Nobility (1763), 106-7. 3. ^Edward Kimber, The Peerage of Ireland. A Complete View of the Several Orders of Nobility (1763), 106-7. 4. ^Edward Kimber, The Peerage of Ireland. A Complete View of the Several Orders of Nobility (1763), 106-7. 5. ^John Debrett, Debrett's Peerage of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1820), 922. 15 : Year of birth unknown|1763 deaths|Viscounts in the Peerage of Ireland|Peers of Ireland created by George II|18th-century Irish people|Anglo-Irish people|Irish MPs 1703–13|Irish MPs 1713–14|Irish MPs 1715–27|Irish MPs 1727–60|Loftus family|Members of the Privy Council of Ireland|Members of the Irish House of Lords|Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Wexford constituencies|Year of birth uncertain |
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