Adam Loftus (politician)

Sir Adam Loftus was an Irish politician and public official of the seventeenth century.

He was the eldest son of Sir Dudley Loftus, and part of a powerful Anglo-Irish Leinster family.

[1] He became a client of the Lord Deputy of Ireland Thomas Wentworth, who had him made a member of the Irish Council.

Adam's younger brother Nicholas Loftus also received a position at the Treasury as Clerk of the Pells.

He sat for the County Wexford seat of Newborough in the 1634 and 1640 Parliaments of Ireland where he was grouped as a supporter of Wentworth.