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'''Lord Augustus William Frederick Spencer Loftus''' [[Order of the Bath|GCB]], [[Privy Council of the United Kingdom|PC]] (4 October 1817 – 7 March 1904) was a British diplomat and colonial administrator. He was [[List of diplomats of the United Kingdom to Germany|Ambassador to Prussia]] from 1865 to 1868, to the [[North German Confederation]] from 1868 to 1871 and to the [[British Ambassador to Russia|Russian Empire]] from 1871 to 1879 and [[Governor of New South Wales]] from 1879 to 1885.
'''Lord Augustus William Frederick Spencer Loftus''', {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|GCB|PC}} (4 October 1817 – 7 March 1904), was a British diplomat and colonial administrator. He was [[List of diplomats of the United Kingdom to Germany|Ambassador to Prussia]] from 1865 to 1868, to the [[North German Confederation]] from 1868 to 1871 and to the [[British Ambassador to Russia|Russian Empire]] from 1871 to 1879 and [[Governor of New South Wales]] from 1879 to 1885.


==Background==
==Background==
Loftus was the fourth son of [[John Loftus, 2nd Marquess of Ely]], by Anna Maria Dashwood, daughter of [[Sir Henry Dashwood, 3rd Baronet]].<ref name="thepeerage.com">[http://www.thepeerage.com/p6301.htm#i63008 thepeerage.com Rt. Hon. Lord Augustus William Frederick Spencer Loftus]</ref>
Loftus was born in [[Bristol]], England, the fourth son of [[John Loftus, 2nd Marquess of Ely]], by Anna Maria Dashwood, daughter of [[Sir Henry Dashwood, 3rd Baronet]]. He was privately educated.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Sumner |first=B. H. |date=1934 |title=Lord Augustus Loftus and the Eastern Crisis of 1875-1878 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3020671 |journal=Cambridge Historical Journal |volume=4 |issue=3 |pages=283–295 |doi=10.1017/S1474691300000640 |jstor=3020671 |issn=1474-6913}}</ref>


==Career==
==Career==
Loftus entered the diplomatic service in 1837 as attaché at [[Berlin]] and was likewise attaché at [[Stuttgart]] in 1844. He was secretary to [[Stratford Canning, 1st Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe|Sir Stratford Canning]] in 1848, and after serving as secretary of legation at Stuttgart (1852), and Berlin (1853), was envoy at [[Vienna]] (1858), Berlin (1860) and [[Munich]] (1862). He was subsequently [[List of diplomats of the United Kingdom to Germany|Ambassador at Berlin]] from 1865 to 1868, to the [[North German Confederation]] from 1868 to 1871 and to [[British Ambassador to Russia|Saint Petersburg]] from 1871 to 1879.<ref>{{Cite Americana|Loftus, Augustus William Frederick Spencer}}</ref> He then served as [[Governor of New South Wales]] from 1879 to 1885.<ref>Australian Dictionary of Biography Online Edition [http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A050117b.htm] Retrieved 13 Jun 2010</ref> He was appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the [[Order of the Bath]] in 1866<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=23134 |date=6 July 1866 |startpage=3871 }}</ref> and sworn of the [[Privy Council of the United Kingdom|Privy Council]] in 1868.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=23440 |date=11 November 1868 |startpage=5858 }}</ref>
Loftus was appointed by [[Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston|Lord Palmerston]] to the diplomatic service in 1837 as attaché at [[Berlin]].<ref name=":0" /> He was attaché at [[Stuttgart]] in 1844. He was secretary to [[Stratford Canning, 1st Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe|Sir Stratford Canning]] in 1848, and after serving as secretary of legation at Stuttgart (1852), and Berlin (1853), was envoy at [[Vienna]] (1858), Berlin (1860) and [[Munich]] (1862).


He was subsequently [[List of diplomats of the United Kingdom to Germany|Ambassador at Berlin]] from 1865 to 1868, to the [[North German Confederation]] from 1868 to 1871 and to [[British Ambassador to Russia|Saint Petersburg]] from 1871 to 1879.<ref>{{Cite Americana|wstitle=Loftus, Augustus William Frederick Spencer}}</ref>
==Family==

Loftus married Emma Maria Greville, daughter of Vice-Admiral Henry Francis Greville, in 1845. They had three sons and two daughters.<ref name="thepeerage.com"/> The town of [[Emmaville, New South Wales]] was named after Emma in 1882.<ref>David Klune and Ken Turner, ''The Governors of New South Wales, 1788-2010'', ''The Federation Press'', 2010, pp. 317-329</ref> Lady Augustus died in January 1902. Loftus survived her by two years and died in [[Surrey]], [[England]], in March 1904, aged 86.<ref name="thepeerage.com"/>
He then served as [[Governor of New South Wales]] from 1879 to 1885.<ref>Australian Dictionary of Biography Online Edition [http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A050117b.htm] Retrieved 13 June 2010.</ref> He was appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the [[Order of the Bath]] in 1866<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=23134 |date=6 July 1866 |page=3871 }}</ref> and sworn of the [[Privy Council of the United Kingdom|Privy Council]] in 1868.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=23440 |date=11 November 1868 |page=5858 }}</ref>

==Marriage and issue==
Loftus married a distant cousin, Emma Maria Greville, daughter of Vice-Admiral Henry Francis Greville, in 1845. They had three sons and two surviving daughters. One of their sons would have succeeded [[George Loftus, 7th Marquess of Ely]] (1903–1969) as the 8th Marquess of Ely, but all three predeceased their cousin.<ref name="burke1934a">{{cite book |editor1-last=Burke |editor1-first=Sir Bernard |editor2-last=Burke |editor2-first=Ashworth P. |editor1-link=Bernard Burke |title=A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage, the Privy Council, Knightage, and Companionage |date=1934 |publisher=[[Burke's Peerage]] |location=London |page=2066 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vpHySDcAmU8C&dq=Augustus+William+Frederick+Spencer&pg=RA7-PA906|access-date=28 September 2024 |volume=I |language=en}}</ref>

*Unnamed daughter (17 August 1846), stillborn at [[Baden-Baden]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Births |work=[[The Belfast News-Letter]] |publisher= |date= 1 September 1846|page= 2}}</ref>
*Evelyn Ann Frances Loftus (4 December 1847 – 28 September 1861), died at Baden-Baden aged 13<ref>{{cite news |title=Deaths |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000047/18611005/018/0004 |access-date=5 October 2024 |work=Caledonian Mercury |date=5 October 1861 |page=4}}</ref>
*Henry John Loftus (8 November 1849 – 4 October 1924), married Sarah Josephine Leech, daughter of William Leech of Philadelphia
*Capt. Augustus Petham Brooke Loftus (6 July 1851 – 25 March 1924), married in 1885 Ethel Adelaïde Labertouche, daughter of [[Peter Paul Labertouche]]; had one son:
**Guy Alvo Greville Loftus (26 August 1899 – 7 August 1965), heir presumptive to the Marquessate of Ely from 1935 until his death<ref>{{cite news |title=Ontario Man Heir to Irish Marquess |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/727060558/?article=6cdcbbc9-f9fe-4422-8b66-10062f8dc9ce&focus=0.14119129,0.52986634,0.25639704,0.68095434&xid=3355 |access-date=5 October 2024 |work=The Sun Times |date=12 August 1965 |location=Ontario, Canada |page=3|url-access=subscription}}</ref>
*Emma Anne Caroline Bloomfield Loftus (15 February 1855 – 21 August 1937); married first in 1873 Hon. Frederick Arthur Wellesley, son of [[Henry Wellesley, 1st Earl Cowley]] (divorced 1882); married second in 1903 {{ill|Lebrecht von Köller|de}}<ref>''Hesse, Germany, Deaths, 1851–1958''</ref>
*Montagu Egerton Loftus (22 January 1860 – 27 November 1934), married Margaret Julia Agnes Fairfax Astell (died 1900), daughter of [[John Harvey Astell]]; and secondly in 1904 Colina Marion Hale Monro

Lady Augustus died in January 1902. Loftus survived her by two years and died in [[Surrey]], England, in March 1904, aged 86.

The town of [[Emmaville, New South Wales]], was named after Emma in 1882.<ref>David Klune and Ken Turner, ''The Governors of New South Wales, 1788-2010'', ''The Federation Press'', 2010, pp. 317–329.</ref>


==References==
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==Further reading==
==Further reading==
* {{cite encyclopedia | title=Loftus, Lord Augustus William Frederick Spencer (1817–1904) | encyclopedia=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography | year=2004 | last=Ward | first=A.W. | url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/34586 | publisher=Oxford University Press }}
* {{cite encyclopedia | title=Loftus, Lord Augustus William Frederick Spencer (1817–1904) | encyclopedia=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography | year=2004 | last=Ward | first=A. W. | url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/34586 | publisher=Oxford University Press | doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/34586 }}
* Loftus, A. (1892).[http://www.archive.org/details/diplomaticremin01unkngoog "The diplomatic reminiscences of Lord Augustus Loftus. 1837-1862"]
* Loftus, A. (1892). [https://archive.org/details/diplomaticremin01unkngoog "The diplomatic reminiscences of Lord Augustus Loftus. 1837–1862"]<ref>{{cite journal|title=Review of ''The Diplomatic Reminiscences of Lord Augustus Loftus, P.C., G.C.B., 1837–1862''|journal=The Athenaeum|issue= 3387|date=24 September 1892|pages=409–410|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GN5BAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA409}}</ref>
* Loftus, A. (1894).[http://www.archive.org/details/diplomaticremin02unkngoog "The diplomatic reminiscences of Lord Augustus Loftus. 1862-1879"]
* Loftus, A. (1894). [https://archive.org/details/diplomaticremin02unkngoog "The diplomatic reminiscences of Lord Augustus Loftus. 1862–1879"]


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Latest revision as of 20:28, 27 November 2024

The Right Honourable
Lord Augustus Loftus
GCB
Lord Augustus Loftus by unknown photographer
15th Governor of New South Wales
In office
4 August 1879 – 9 November 1885
MonarchVictoria
Preceded byHercules Robinson
Succeeded byThe Lord Carrington
Personal details
Born
Lord Augustus William Frederick Spencer Loftus

(1817-10-04)4 October 1817
Bristol, England
Died7 March 1904(1904-03-07) (aged 86)
Surrey, England
SpouseEmma Maria Greville (m. 1845)
Children5

Lord Augustus William Frederick Spencer Loftus, GCB, PC (4 October 1817 – 7 March 1904), was a British diplomat and colonial administrator. He was Ambassador to Prussia from 1865 to 1868, to the North German Confederation from 1868 to 1871 and to the Russian Empire from 1871 to 1879 and Governor of New South Wales from 1879 to 1885.

Background

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Loftus was born in Bristol, England, the fourth son of John Loftus, 2nd Marquess of Ely, by Anna Maria Dashwood, daughter of Sir Henry Dashwood, 3rd Baronet. He was privately educated.[1]

Career

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Loftus was appointed by Lord Palmerston to the diplomatic service in 1837 as attaché at Berlin.[1] He was attaché at Stuttgart in 1844. He was secretary to Sir Stratford Canning in 1848, and after serving as secretary of legation at Stuttgart (1852), and Berlin (1853), was envoy at Vienna (1858), Berlin (1860) and Munich (1862).

He was subsequently Ambassador at Berlin from 1865 to 1868, to the North German Confederation from 1868 to 1871 and to Saint Petersburg from 1871 to 1879.[2]

He then served as Governor of New South Wales from 1879 to 1885.[3] He was appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath in 1866[4] and sworn of the Privy Council in 1868.[5]

Marriage and issue

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Loftus married a distant cousin, Emma Maria Greville, daughter of Vice-Admiral Henry Francis Greville, in 1845. They had three sons and two surviving daughters. One of their sons would have succeeded George Loftus, 7th Marquess of Ely (1903–1969) as the 8th Marquess of Ely, but all three predeceased their cousin.[6]

  • Unnamed daughter (17 August 1846), stillborn at Baden-Baden[7]
  • Evelyn Ann Frances Loftus (4 December 1847 – 28 September 1861), died at Baden-Baden aged 13[8]
  • Henry John Loftus (8 November 1849 – 4 October 1924), married Sarah Josephine Leech, daughter of William Leech of Philadelphia
  • Capt. Augustus Petham Brooke Loftus (6 July 1851 – 25 March 1924), married in 1885 Ethel Adelaïde Labertouche, daughter of Peter Paul Labertouche; had one son:
    • Guy Alvo Greville Loftus (26 August 1899 – 7 August 1965), heir presumptive to the Marquessate of Ely from 1935 until his death[9]
  • Emma Anne Caroline Bloomfield Loftus (15 February 1855 – 21 August 1937); married first in 1873 Hon. Frederick Arthur Wellesley, son of Henry Wellesley, 1st Earl Cowley (divorced 1882); married second in 1903 Lebrecht von Köller [de][10]
  • Montagu Egerton Loftus (22 January 1860 – 27 November 1934), married Margaret Julia Agnes Fairfax Astell (died 1900), daughter of John Harvey Astell; and secondly in 1904 Colina Marion Hale Monro

Lady Augustus died in January 1902. Loftus survived her by two years and died in Surrey, England, in March 1904, aged 86.

The town of Emmaville, New South Wales, was named after Emma in 1882.[11]

References

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  1. ^ a b Sumner, B. H. (1934). "Lord Augustus Loftus and the Eastern Crisis of 1875-1878". Cambridge Historical Journal. 4 (3): 283–295. doi:10.1017/S1474691300000640. ISSN 1474-6913. JSTOR 3020671.
  2. ^ Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). "Loftus, Augustus William Frederick Spencer" . Encyclopedia Americana.
  3. ^ Australian Dictionary of Biography Online Edition [1] Retrieved 13 June 2010.
  4. ^ "No. 23134". The London Gazette. 6 July 1866. p. 3871.
  5. ^ "No. 23440". The London Gazette. 11 November 1868. p. 5858.
  6. ^ Burke, Sir Bernard; Burke, Ashworth P., eds. (1934). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage, the Privy Council, Knightage, and Companionage. Vol. I. London: Burke's Peerage. p. 2066. Retrieved 28 September 2024.
  7. ^ "Births". The Belfast News-Letter. 1 September 1846. p. 2.
  8. ^ "Deaths". Caledonian Mercury. 5 October 1861. p. 4. Retrieved 5 October 2024.
  9. ^ "Ontario Man Heir to Irish Marquess". The Sun Times. Ontario, Canada. 12 August 1965. p. 3. Retrieved 5 October 2024.
  10. ^ Hesse, Germany, Deaths, 1851–1958
  11. ^ David Klune and Ken Turner, The Governors of New South Wales, 1788-2010, The Federation Press, 2010, pp. 317–329.

Further reading

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Diplomatic posts
Preceded by British Ambassador to Austria
1858–1860 		Succeeded by
Preceded by British Minister to Prussia
1860–1862 		Succeeded by
Preceded by British Minister to Bavaria
1862–1866 		Succeeded by
Preceded by British Ambassador to Prussia
(to the North German Confederation 1868–71)
1866–1871 		Succeeded by
The Lord Ampthill
(as Ambassador to the German Empire)
Preceded by British Ambassador to Russia
1871–1879 		Succeeded by
Government offices
Preceded by Governor of New South Wales
1879–1885 		Succeeded by


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  1. ^ "Review of The Diplomatic Reminiscences of Lord Augustus Loftus, P.C., G.C.B., 1837–1862". The Athenaeum (3387): 409–410. 24 September 1892.
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