Lord Augustus Loftus
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Lord Augustus William Frederick Spencer Loftus 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 an
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John Loftus, 2nd Marquess of Ely KP, styled The Honourable John Loftus from 1785 to 1794 and Viscount Loftus from 1794 to 1806, was an Anglo-Irish politician who held Irish and British peerages.
Lord Augustus Loftus
…and to the Russian Empire from 1871 to 1879 and Governor of New South Wales from 1879 to 1885. 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. Loftus was appointed by Lord Palmerston to the diplomatic…
Portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence
Anna Maria Dashwood by Sir Thomas Lawrence, c. 1805