Arthur Loftus

Sir Arthur Loftus (died 27 May 1665) was an Anglo-Irish politician and landowner.

He was the son of Sir Adam Loftus and Jane Vaughan.^[1] His grandfather was Sir Dudley Loftus. He served as the Member of Parliament for Wexford County in the 1639-49 parliament and was Provost Marshal of Ulster. He was knighted by Charles II. He lived at Rathfarnham, County Dublin.

Loftus married Lady Dorothy Boyle, daughter of Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork and Catherine Fenton, in 1627.^[2] Their son was Adam Loftus, 1st Viscount Lisburne and their daughter, Lettice, married Humphrey Coningsby.

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. 3 p. 395, 420 fn. (b); vol. 12 pt. 2 p. 116 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. 3 p. 395, 420 fn. (b); vol. 12 pt. 2 p. 116 fn.