Nicholas Hume-Loftus, 1st Earl of Ely

Nicholas Hume-Loftus, 1st Earl of Ely PC (I) (1708 – 31 October 1766) was an Anglo-Irish peer and member of the House of Lords.

[1] He sat in the Irish House of Commons as the Member of Parliament for Bannow from 1736 to 1760 and for Fethard, County Wexford between 1761 and 1763.

[2] In 1763 he succeeded to his father's titles and assumed his seat in the Irish House of Lords.

On 23 October 1766 he was created Earl of Ely in County Wicklow in the Peerage of Ireland.

During the celebrated hearing into the son's mental incapacity, much was said about the ill-treatment he had received from his father.