Background
He was born the younger son of Charles Loftus, 1st Marquess of Ely in Woodstock, County Wicklow on 5 September 1773 and educated at Christ Church, Oxford.
He was born the younger son of Charles Loftus, 1st Marquess of Ely in Woodstock, County Wicklow on 5 September 1773 and educated at Christ Church, Oxford.
Christ Church.
He was Precentor of Cashel from 1798 until 1804 when he was elevated to the Episcopate as Bishop of Killaloe and Kilfenora. Upon his father"s death, he inherited the Tottenham Green estate, changing his surname to Tottenham. In 1820 he was translated to Ferns and two years later to Clogher.
He died in post on 28 April 1850.