# Nicholas Loftus > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Nicholas_Loftus > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Nicholas_Loftus.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Loftus > Source revision: 1285279568 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Irish politician and public official}} {{for|the Anglo-Irish politician| Nicholas Loftus, 1st Viscount Loftus}} {{one source|date=February 2020}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2020}} {{Use Hiberno-English|date=February 2020}} '''Nicholas Loftus''' (1592-1666) was an Irish [politician](/source/politician) and [public official](/source/public_official). He was the son of Sir [Dudley Loftus](/source/Dudley_Loftus_(died_1616)) and the grandson of [Adam Loftus](/source/Adam_Loftus_(bishop)), the [Archbishop of Dublin](/source/Archbishop_of_Dublin) and an influential political figure in [Tudor Ireland](/source/Tudor_Ireland). His mother [Anne Bagenal](/source/Anne_Sarsfield%2C_Viscountess_Sarsfield) was from a leading [Ulster](/source/Ulster) family headed by Sir [Nicholas Bagenal](/source/Nicholas_Bagenal). She later remarried to the prominent judge [Lord Sarsfield](/source/Dominick_Sarsfield%2C_1st_Viscount_Sarsfield), who thus became Nicholas' stepfather. Nicholas' elder brother Sir [Adam Loftus](/source/Adam_Loftus_(politician)) was made [Vice-Treasurer of Ireland](/source/Vice-Treasurer_of_Ireland) during the administration of [Thomas Wentworth](/source/Thomas_Wentworth%2C_1st_Earl_of_Strafford) while Nicholas was appointed as an Irish [Treasury](/source/Treasury) official, with the title [Clerk of the Pells](/source/Clerk_of_the_Pells), under him. He was elected as a member of the [Parliament of Ireland](/source/Parliament_of_Ireland) in 1613 and 1634, representing the seat of [Fethard](/source/Fethard_(County_Wexford)_(Parliament_of_Ireland_constituency)) in [County Wexford](/source/County_Wexford).Kearney, p.234-46 In the 1640 Parliament he sat for [County Wexford](/source/County_Wexford_(Parliament_of_Ireland_constituency)) seat.Kearney, p.261 In the Parliament elected in 1661, he sat once again for Fethard.[https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=RWMUAAAAQAAJ&pg=GBS.PA638&printsec=frontcover Return of the name of every member of the lower house of parliament of England, Scotland, and Ireland, with name of constituency represented, and date of return, from 1213 to 1874. 1878. Volume 2, p. 638.] - refers to him as 'Nicholas Loftus, Senior'. In 1623, he married Margaret Chetham, the daughter of Thomas Chetham, a prosperous landowner from Nuthurst (now [New Moston](/source/New_Moston)), [Lancashire](/source/Lancashire), who later acquired an estate at [Hacketstown](/source/Hacketstown), [County Wicklow](/source/County_Wicklow), and his first wife Mary Forster. By his wife he had fourteen children, of whom six sons and five daughters reached adult life. After his death in 1666, he was succeeded by his eldest son [Sir Nicholas Loftus](/source/Sir_Nicholas_Loftus). The second son Henry was the father of [Nicholas Loftus, 1st Viscount Loftus](/source/Nicholas_Loftus%2C_1st_Viscount_Loftus), who inherited his uncle's estates after the failure of his male line. ==References== {{Reflist}} ==Bibliography== * Kearney, Hugh F. ''Strafford in Ireland 1633-1641: A Study in Absolutism''. Cambridge University Press, 1989. {{DEFAULTSORT:Loftus, Nicholas}} Category:1592 births Category:1666 deaths Category:17th-century Irish politicians Category:People from Rathfarnham Category:Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Wexford constituencies Category:Irish MPs 1613–1615 Category:Irish MPs 1634–1635 Category:Irish MPs 1639–1649 Category:Irish MPs 1661–1666 {{Ireland-bio-stub}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Nicholas Loftus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Loftus) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Loftus?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.