Adam Loftus, 1st Viscount Loftus
Deceased Person
1568 – 1643
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Who was Adam Loftus, 1st Viscount Loftus?
Adam Loftus, 1st Viscount Loftus was Lord Chancellor of Ireland in 1619. His uncle, also named Adam, was Archbishop of Armagh and Dublin.
Adam Loftus became Lord Chancellor of Ireland in 1619, and in 1622 was created Viscount Loftus of Ely, King's County, in the peerage of Ireland.
Loftus came into violent conflict with the Lord Deputy of Ireland, Viscount Falkland, in 1624; and at a later date his quarrel with Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford was even fiercer. One of the articles in Strafford's impeachment was based on his dealings with Loftus.
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