Adam Loftus (bishop)

The Most Reverend Adam Loftus
Archbishop of Dublin Primacy of Ireland
Church	Church of Ireland
Province	Dublin
Diocese	Dublin and Glendalough
Installed	9 August 1567
Term ended	5 April 1605
Predecessor	Hugh Curwen
Successor	Thomas Jones
Other post(s)	Archbishop of Armagh (2 March 1563 – 9 August 1567)
Orders
Consecration	1563 by Hugh Curwen
Personal details
Born	1533 Yorkshire Dales, England
Died	5 April 1605 (age 71/72) Dublin, Ireland
Nationality	English
Denomination	Anglican
Parents	Edward Loftus
Spouse	Jane Purdon (m. c. 1560)
Children	10, including Dudley and Edward
Alma mater	Trinity College, Cambridge

Adam Loftus (c. 1533 – 5 April 1605) was an English Roman Catholic priest from North Yorkshire who conformed to Anglicanism following the ascension to the throne of Queen Elizabeth I of England. Loftus subsequently served as Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh, Archbishop of Dublin, and Lord Chancellor of Ireland from 1581. Loftus is particularly important to Irish history as the first Provost of Trinity College Dublin^[1] and for his central role in the 1584 torture and execution of Archbishop Dermot O'Hurley, who was Beatified by Pope John Paul II as one of the Irish Catholic Martyrs in 1992.^[2][3] Loftus is also notable, through the marriage of his daughter Anne to the son and heir of Sir Henry Colley and their subsequent issue, as the ancestor of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington.^[4]