Adam Loftus was an English Anglican bishop who was Archbishop of Armagh, and later Dublin, and Lord Chancellor of Ireland from 1581. He was also the first Provost of Trinity College Dublin.
Marquess of Ely, of the County of Wexford, is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1800 for Charles Loftus, 1st Earl of Ely. He was born Charles Tottenham, the son of Sir John Tottenham, 1st Baronet, who had been created a baronet, of Tottenham Green in the County of Wexford, in the Baronetage of Ireland in 1780, by Elizabeth, daughter of Nicholas Loftus, 1st Viscount Loftus, sister and heiress of Henry Loftus, 1st Earl of Ely.
Earl of Ely is a title that has been created three times in the Peerage of Ireland for members of the Loftus family. This family descended from Nicholas Loftus, 1st Viscount Loftus, who was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Loftus, of Loftus Hall in the County of Wexford, in 1751. In 1756 he was further honoured when he was made Viscount Loftus, of Ely in the County of Wicklow. He was succeeded by his son, Nicholas, the second Viscount. He had previously represented Fethard in the Irish House of Commons. In 1766 he was created Earl of Ely in the Peerage of Ireland. Lord Ely assumed the additional surname of Hume. He was succeeded by his son, Nicholas, the second Earl. He represented both Fethard and Bannow in the Irish Parliament.
Loftus Hall is a large country house on the Hook peninsula, County Wexford, Ireland. Built on the site of the original Redmond Hall, it is said to have been haunted by the devil and the ghost of a woman.
Sir Walter Butler, 11th Earl of Ormond and 4th Earl of Ossory (1559–1633), succeeded his uncle Black Tom, the 10th earl, in 1614. He was called "Walter of the Beads" because he was a devout Catholic, whereas his uncle had been a Protestant. King James I intervened and awarded most of the inheritance to his uncle's Protestant daughter Elizabeth. Ormond contested the King's decision and was for that insolence detained in the Fleet Prison from 1619 until 1625 when he submitted to the King's ruling. He then found a means to reunite the Ormond estate, by marrying his grandson James, who had been raised a Protestant, to Elizabeth's only daughter.
Dr Dudley Loftus was an Anglo-Irish jurist and noted orientalist.
John Loftus, 2nd Marquess of Ely KP, styled The Honourable John Loftus from 1785 to 1794 and Viscount Loftus from 1794 to 1806, was an Anglo-Irish politician and aristocrat who held Irish and British peerages.
Charles Tottenham Loftus, 1st Marquess of Ely, KP, PC was an Anglo-Irish peer and politician.
Fethard was a constituency in County Wexford represented in the Irish House of Commons until its abolition on 1 January 1801.
Arthur Loftus Tottenham was a landowner and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1887.
Nicholas Hume-Loftus, 1st Earl of Ely PC (I) was an Anglo-Irish peer and member of the House of Lords.
Sir Nicholas Bagenal or Bagenall was an English soldier and politician who became Marshal of the Army in Ireland during the Tudor era.
Lucas More Plunket of Killeen, County Meath, styled Lucas Môr, tenth lord Killeen, created Earl of Fingall on 26 September 1628, was an Irish peer.
Charles Tottenham was an Irish Member of Parliament.
Nicholas Loftus, 1st Viscount Loftus PC (I) was an Anglo-Irish politician and peer.
Anne Sarsfield, Viscountess Sarsfield was an Irish aristocrat of the 16th and 17th centuries. She was born Anne Bagenal, and should not be confused with her niece Anne Bagenal the daughter of her brother Henry.
Sir Dudley Loftus was an Irish landowner and politician of the 16th and early seventeenth century.
Sir Adam Loftus was an Irish politician and public official of the seventeenth century.
Sir John Tottenham, 1st Baronet was an Anglo-Irish politician.
John Cliffe (1661–1728) was an Irish barrister, landowner and politician. He sat in the Irish House of Commons for many years, where he was often called on to speak for the Government, and held the office of Serjeant-at-law (Ireland).
