LOFTUS, Dr Dudley (1619-95), of Wood Quay, Dublin.

Family and Education

b. 1619, 3rd s. of Sir Adam Loftus of Rathfarnham, co. Dublin, and Jane, da. of Walter Vaughan of Golden Grove, King’s Co. educ. Dublin Univ. 1635, BA 19 Jan. 1638; Univ. Coll. Oxf. BA (ad eundum gradum) 9 Nov. 1639, MA 20 Oct. 1640.Al. Ox.; Al. Dub. 509. m. (1) Frances (d. 1691) da. of Patrick Nangle, 2s. 5da.; (2) 16 Apr. 1693, Lady Catherine Mervyn, s.p. d. June 1695.DIB.

Offices Held

Military: gov. Rathfarnham Castle, co. Dublin 1641–?1649.Bodl. Tanner 25, f. 67v. Capt. regt. of Sir Arthur Loftus, parlian. forces in Ireland, c.1648.CSP Ire. 1647–60, pp. 12, 16.

Irish: MP, Naas, co. Kildare 1642; Bannow, co. Wexford 1661 – 66; Fethard, co. Wexford 1692–5.Bodl. Tanner 25, f. 67v; CJI i. 595; ii. 568. Judge, prerogative ct. Leinster by July 1647–51, 1660–d.Corresp. of James Ussher ed. E. Boran (3 vols. Dublin, 2015), iii. 907; Eg. 1762, ff. 4v-5. Dep. judge adv. of Leinster, 24 June 1651–?1660.NLI, MS 758, f. 116. Dep. judge adv. June 1651.DIB. J.p. Leinster 4 Nov. 1651; Dublin 15 Sept. 1653.TCD, MS 844, ff. 110, 139v. Commr. high ct. of justice, Dublin 30 Dec. 1652.TCD, MS 844, f. 136. Judge of admlty. bef. 1654.Add. 19833, f. 3v. Commr. assessment, city and co. Dublin 16 Oct. 1654, 12 Jan. 1655; co. Dublin 24 June 1657.An Assessment for Ire. (Dublin, 1654, 1655, 1657). Master of chancery, 1655–73.Stowe 152, f. 98v; CSP Dom. 1673, p. 601. Surveyor-gen. c.1659-Oct. 1660.Eg. 2549, ff. 94–5. Returning officer and member for Jamestown, co. Leitrim, gen. convention, Mar. 1660.Clarke, Prelude to Restoration, 123, 227–8. Commr. poll money, city and co. Dublin 24 Apr. 1660, 30 Mar. 1661.Irish Census, 1659, 620–1, 639. Vicar-gen. 1660–d.Al. Dub. 509. Commr. for clerical taxation, Aug. 1670;CSP Ire. 1670, p. 223. militia, Dublin 13 July 1690.HMC Ormonde, n.s. viii. 388.

Local: asst. collector, assessment Surr. 4 July 1648.CSP Ire. 1647–60, p. 21.

Academic: prof. of civil law and LLD, Dublin Univ. by 1655. Member, cttee. for new coll. in Dublin, Dec. 1658.Barnard, Cromwellian Ireland, 209.

: of Wood Quay, Dublin.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

LOFTUS, Dr Dudley (1619-95), of Wood Quay, Dublin.

Will

Estates

uncertain, but probably minimal. Borrowed money on a bond of £600 of Sept. 1669; held land in one townland, Skreene barony, co. Meath 1670.Irish Statute Staple Bks. 250; Down Survey website.

Oxford 1644

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