[1] He was the 10th son of Lord Robert Ponsonby Tottenham Loftus, Bishop of Clogher from 1822 to 1850,[2] and the Hon.
He was educated at Sherborne and Trinity College, Cambridge.
[3][4] Ordained in 1849, after curacies in Donaghmore and Tynan[5] he was Rector of Inishmacsaint.
He married Emily Frances Maclean, the eldest surviving daughter of Rev.
William Maclean, Prebendary of Tynan, County Armagh.