Sir Edward Crofton, 1st Baronet

Crofton was the son of George Crofton of Ballymurray, County Roscommon and Elizabeth Berkeley, daughter of Sir Francis Berkeley and Catherine Loftus, and granddaughter of Adam Loftus, Archbishop of Armagh.

The Crofton family had come to Ireland in the sixteenth century and settled in County Roscommon.

At about the same time he began the building of Mote Park House, which Edward inherited, and remained the family seat for generations.

[1] On 1 July 1661 he was created a baronet in the Baronetage of Ireland as a reward for his support of Charles II of England during the English Civil War and The Restoration.

He married secondly in 1661 Susanna, daughter of Thomas Clifford of Devon, by whom he had an only son and heir, Edward.