Sir Edward Loftus, 1st Baronet

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Sir Edward Loftus, 1st Baronet (c.1742 – 17 May 1818) was an

Anglo-Irish
politician.

Loftus was the illegitimate son of

Baronetage of Ireland. He was High Sheriff of Tyrone in 1777 and High Sheriff of Wexford in 1784.[citation needed
]

On 18 March 1758 he married Anne Read, with whom he had four children, two of whom survived to adulthood.[2]

References

  1. ^ G. E. Cokayne and V. Gibbs, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct, or Dormant (1910), (New edition. 13 volumes in 14. London: St. Catherine Press,1910-), vol. 5 p. 65 fn.
  2. ^ G. E. Cokayne and V. Gibbs, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct, or Dormant (1910), (New edition. 13 volumes in 14. London: St. Catherine Press,1910-), vol. 5 p. 65 fn.
Baronetage of Ireland
New creation Baronet
(of Mount Loftus)
1768–1818
Succeeded by
Nicholas Loftus