Lord Robert Tottenham

The Rt Revd
 The Lord Robert Tottenham
DD MA
Bishop of Killaloe and Kilfenora[1]
In office
1804–1820
Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin
In office
1820 – 1822[2]
Bishop of Clogher
In office
1822 – 1850[3]
Personal details
Born 5 September 1773
Died 28 April 1850
Nationality Irish
Spouse(s) Hon. Alicia Maude

8th child and 6th daughter of
Cornwallis Maude, 1st Viscount Hawarden[4]
Alma mater Christ Church, Oxford
Religion Church of Ireland

Robert Ponsonby Tottenham (Robert Ponsonby Loftus until 1806) was an Irish Anglican Bishop in the first half of the 19th century.[5]

He was born the younger son[6] of Charles Loftus, 1st Marquess of Ely in Woodstock, County Wicklow [7] on 5 September 1773 [8] and educated at Christ Church, Oxford.[9] He was Precentor of Cashel from 1798 until 1804[10] when he was elevated to the Episcopate[11] as Bishop of Killaloe and Kilfenora.[12] Upon his father's death, he inherited the Tottenham Green estate, changing his surname to Tottenham.[9] In 1820 he was translated[13] to Ferns [14] and two years later to Clogher.[15] He died in post[16] on 28 April 1850.[17]

References

  1. ^ Church of Ireland- Clare
  2. ^ “Enniskellen long ago” Bradshaw,W.H: Dublin, George Herbert, 1878
  3. ^ Ireland Old News
  4. ^ ” A General and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage of the British Empire” Burke,J London, Colburn,H/ Bentley, R 1832
  5. ^ Burke's Peerage 1967 p1201
  6. ^ Clare Library
  7. ^ National Archives
  8. ^ thePeerage.com
  9. ^ a b Tottenham name
  10. ^ The Morning Chronicle (London, England), Wednesday, December 5, 1804; Issue 11091
  11. ^ National Library of Ireland
  12. ^ "A New History of Ireland" Moody, T.M; Martin, F.X; Byrne, F.J; Cosgrove, F:Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN 0198217455
  13. ^ RDS
  14. ^ Fryde, E. B; Greenway, D. E; Porter, S; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third Edition, revised ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
  15. ^ Cotton, Henry (1849). The Succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies of Ireland. Fasti ecclesiae Hiberniae. Vol. 3, The Province of Ulster. Dublin: Hodges and Smith. pp. 73–77
  16. ^ Clogher Anglican
  17. ^ The Times, Wednesday, May 01, 1850; pg. 8; Issue 20477; col B Ireland
Church of England titles
Preceded by
Nathaniel Alexander		 Bishop of Killaloe and Kilfenora
1804–1820		 Succeeded by
Richard Mant
Preceded by
Percy Jocelyn		 Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin
1820–1822		 Succeeded by
Thomas Elrington
Bishop of Clogher
1822–1850		 Succeeded by
Lord John Beresford
Bishops of Killaloe and Kilfenora
Bishops of Ferns and Leighlin

Hugh Allen • Robert Grave • Nicholas Statford • Thomas Ram • George Andrews • Robert Price • Richard Boyle • Narcissus Marsh • Bartholomew Vigors • Josiah Hort • John Hoadly • Arthur Price • Edward Synge • George Stone • William Cottrell  • Robert Downes • John Garnet • Hon. William Carmichael • Thomas Salmon • Richard Robinson • Charles Jackson • Edward Young • Hon. Joseph Deane Bourke • Walter Cope • William Preston • Euseby Cleaver • Hon. Percy Jocelyn • Robert Ponsonby Tottenham Loftus • Thomas Elrington
19th Century Anglican Bishops of Clogher