Background
He was the second son of Sir Arthur Loftus of Rathfarnham, company Dublin and Lady Dorothy Boyle, daughter of Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork.
He was the second son of Sir Arthur Loftus of Rathfarnham, company Dublin and Lady Dorothy Boyle, daughter of Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork.
He was Ranger of Phoenix Park and of the King"s parks in Ireland and a Master of the Court of Requests. A Roman Catholic, he nevertheless took the Whig side in the Glorious Revolution and in 1689 commanded an English regiment in Ireland as the first Colonel of the 39th (Dorsetshire) Regiment of Foot. On 15 September 1691 he was killed by a cannonball at the Siege of Limerick.
He had no heir and thus both titles became extinct.
From 1685 he was a member of the Privy Council of Ireland and on 29 January 1686, King James II created him Baron of Rathfarnham and Viscount Lisburne in the Peerage of Ireland.
