Lord Robert Tottenham

The Rt Revd The Lord Robert Tottenham DD MA
Bishop of Killaloe and Kilfenora[1]
In office 1804–1820
Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin
In office 1820 – 1822[2]
Bishop of Clogher
In office 1822 – 1850[3]
Personal details
Born	5 September 1773
Died	28 April 1850
Nationality	Irish
Spouse(s)	Hon. Alicia Maude 8th child and 6th daughter of Cornwallis Maude, 1st Viscount Hawarden[4]
Alma mater	Christ Church, Oxford
Religion	Church of Ireland

Robert Ponsonby Tottenham (Robert Ponsonby Loftus until 1806) was an Irish Anglican Bishop in the first half of the 19th century.^[5]

He was born the younger son^[6] of Charles Loftus, 1st Marquess of Ely in Woodstock, County Wicklow ^[7] on 5 September 1773 ^[8] and educated at Christ Church, Oxford.^[9] He was Precentor of Cashel from 1798 until 1804^[10] when he was elevated to the Episcopate^[11] as Bishop of Killaloe and Kilfenora.^[12] Upon his father's death, he inherited the Tottenham Green estate, changing his surname to Tottenham.^[9] In 1820 he was translated^[13] to Ferns ^[14] and two years later to Clogher.^[15] He died in post^[16] on 28 April 1850.^[17]

References

1. Church of Ireland- Clare
2. “Enniskellen long ago” Bradshaw,W.H: Dublin, George Herbert, 1878
3. Ireland Old News
4. ” A General and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage of the British Empire” Burke,J London, Colburn,H/ Bentley, R 1832
5. Burke's Peerage 1967 p1201
6. Clare Library
7. National Archives
8. thePeerage.com
9. Tottenham name
10. The Morning Chronicle (London, England), Wednesday, December 5, 1804; Issue 11091
11. National Library of Ireland
12. "A New History of Ireland" Moody, T.M; Martin, F.X; Byrne, F.J; Cosgrove, F:Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN 0-19-821745-5
13. RDS
14. Fryde, E. B; Greenway, D. E; Porter, S; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third Edition, revised ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
15. Cotton, Henry (1849). The Succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies of Ireland. Fasti ecclesiae Hiberniae. Vol. 3, The Province of Ulster. Dublin: Hodges and Smith. pp. 73–77
16. Clogher Anglican
17. The Times, Wednesday, May 01, 1850; pg. 8; Issue 20477; col B Ireland