Adam Loftus, 1st Viscount Loftus | |
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| Born | 1568  |
| Died | 1643 (aged 74–75) |
| Spouse(s) | Sarah Bathow |
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Adam Loftus, 1st Viscount Loftus (c. 1568–1643), was Lord Chancellor of Ireland from 1619 and from 1622 raised to the peerage of Ireland as Viscount Loftus of Ely, King's County.[1] His uncle, another Adam Loftus, was both Lord Chancellor of Ireland and Church of Ireland primate.
Lord Loftus clashed with the Lord Deputy of Ireland, Viscount Falkland, in 1624; and in the late 1630s his quarrel with Falkland's successor, The 1st Viscount Wentworth, was even fiercer. Lord Wentworth was created The 1st Earl of Strafford in January 1640. One of the principal articles of the then Lord Strafford's impeachment in 1641, which led to his attainder and execution for treason, was based on his alleged mistreatment of Lord Loftus.[1]
- ^ a b Chisholm 1911, p. 863.