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Adam Loftus (bishop)
1605Apr, 5

Adam Loftus (bishop)

Adam Loftus, English-Irish archbishop and politician, Lord Chancellor of Ireland (b. 1513)
Adam Loftus (c. 1533 – 5 April 1605) was Archbishop of Armagh, and later Dublin, and Lord Chancellor of Ireland from 1581. He was also the first Provost of Trinity College Dublin.

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