She was the widow of Sir Edward Crofton, 2nd Baronet, of the Mote, who had represented Roscommon in the Irish House of Commons and had been offered a peerage just before his death.
He sat in the House of Lords as an Irish representative peer from 1840 to 1869 and served as a Lord-in-waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) in the three Conservative administrations of the Earl of Derby and in Benjamin Disraeli's first government.
His son, the third Baron, served as an Irish representative peer between 1873 and 1912 and was also State Steward to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
[7] Edward Crofton of Longford House in the County of Sligo was granted a Baronetcy in 1661.
Head of the elder male branch of the family, Sir James was also a Major of the Sligo Militia and Deputy Lieutenant of the County.
Although this was a sizeable estate, when compared with others such as the Essex properties consisting of the town of Roscommon itself and extensive lands to the north, totalling some 36,000 acres, it clearly was not the largest.
[11] Crofton House (at Mote Park) was clearly an imposing structure and reflects the influence of neo-classicism prevalent at this time.
It had a deep hall with a screen of columns, beyond which a door flanked by niches led into an oval library in the bow on the garden front.
Perhaps the most splendid surviving feature is the original entrance gate consisting of a Doric triumphal arch surmounted by a lion with screen walls linking two identical lodge houses.