LOFFT, Capel (4 son of Capel Lofft, miscellaneous writer 1751–1824). b. Troston hall, Suffolk 19 Feb. 1806; ed. at Eton 1814–25, and King’s coll. Camb., fellow to 1837, Craven univ. scholar 1827, B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; barrister M.T. 6 June 1834; author of Self-Formation, or the history of an individual mind. By A fellow of a college 2 vols. 1837; Ernest 1839, anon., a poem, 2 ed. with title of Ernest the rule of right 1868; New Testament, suggestions for reformation of Greek text. By R. E. Storer (i.e. Restorer) 1868; published at New York in 1861 an edition of the Self-Communion of Marcus Antoninus, with notes. d. at his estate Millmead in Virginia, U.S. of A. 1 Oct. 1873.
LOFTHOUSE, Mary (dau. of Thomas B. W. Forster of Holt Manor, Wiltshire, landscape painter). b. 1853; water-colour painter; her pictures were exhibited at the exhibition of lady artists, Great Marlborough st. London; exhibited 4 landscapes at R.A. 1876–80; an associate of Royal Soc. of painters in water-colours 1884; (m. 3 June 1884 Samuel Hill Smith Lofthouse, barrister L.I. 7 June 1869). d. Elmbank, Lower Halliford-on-Thames 2 May 1885.
LOFTUS, Arthur John (only son of Arthur Loftus, captain R.N.) b. 1817; ensign 97 foot 15 Dec. 1840; lieut. 10 royal hussars 1 May 1846; captain 18 hussars 26 Feb. 1858, sold out 21 Sep. 1860; Lucknow medal and clasp 1857; gentleman usher to the queen 1878–83; keeper of the crown jewels 23 April 1883 to death. d. Brighton 3 Sep. 1891.
LOFTUS, Ferrars (4 son of general Wm. Loftus, lieut. of Tower of London). b. 24 June 1798; ensign grenadier guards 1815, captain 27 Dec. 1833, sold out 1840; colonel 3 West York militia 25 April 1870 to death. d. Tyringham, Bucks. 9 Oct. 1877.
LOFTUS, George William (2 son of 2 marquess of Ely 1770–1845). b. 11 May 1815; ed. at Harrow; 2 lieut. rifle corps 22 June 1833; ensign grenadier guards 12 Sep. 1834, sold out 1839; fought a duel with lord Harley, afterwards Earl of Oxford, at Boulogne 10 Dec. 1839, they exchanged shots without effect; bankrupt 2 May 1862 and 9 April 1867. d. Nice, France 19 Jany. 1877. Montagu Williams’s Leaves of a life (1891) 2–4.
LOFTUS, William Francis Bentinck (brother of Ferrars Loftus 1798–1877). b. 17 Aug. 1784; cornet 15 dragoons 30 Aug. 1799, captain 20 April 1804; major 38 foot 9 April 1807 to 25 Dec. 1814 when placed on h.p.; colonel 50 foot 11 April 1851 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. d. Chacombe priory, Northamptonshire 13 Sep. 1852. G.M. xxxviii 635 (1852).
LOFTUS, William James (eld. son of the preceding). b. 7 Jany. 1822; ensign 38 foot 9 Nov. 1838, lieut.-col. 16 Jany. 1863, placed on h.p. 22 Dec. 1863; served in North America and the West Indies 1840–51; present at the Alma, at Inkerman, and in siege of Sebastopol, Crimean medal with 3 clasps; served in Indian mutiny, in siege and capture of Lucknow, Indian medal with clasps 1857; C.B. 24 May 1873; general on the retired list July 1881. d. Birtley Bramley, Guildford 29 March 1887.
LOFTUS, William Kennett. b. Rye, Sussex about 1821; ed. at Newcastle gr. sch., at Twickenham, and Caius coll. Camb. 1840; secretary to Newcastle Natural history soc.; geologist on staff of sir W. F. Williams on Turco-Persian frontier commission 1849–52; sent out to Babylon and Nineveh by Assyrian excavation fund 1853, returned 1855 with collections of tablets, &c. now in British Museum; issued a volume of Lithograph facsimilies of cuneiform inscriptions from 1852; author of Travels and researches in Chaldea and Susiana, with account of excavations at Nimrod and Shúsh 1857. d. on board the Tyburnia on his way to England from Rangoon, Nov. 1858.
LOGAN, Alexander Stuart (son of minister of Relief church, St. Ninians, Stirlingshire). b. St. Ninians 1810; ed. Glasgow and Edinb. universities; advocate at Scottish bar 1835; senior advocate depute Dec. 1853; sheriff of Forfarshire 4 Feb. 1854 to death; held many briefs at bar of General Assembly; author of On Robert Burns, an address, and Judas the Betrayer, a poetical fragment 1871. d. 12 York place, Edinburgh 2 Feb. 1862, marble bust in Court buildings, Dundee. Norrie’s Dundee celebrities (1873) 207–8.
LOGAN, Archibald Spiers. b. 1802; entered Madras army 1819; lieut. 47 Madras N.I. 182-, captain 11 Sep. 1832; captain 33 N.I. 1835, lieut.-col. 7 Aug. 1846 to 1855; lieut.-col. of 15 N.I. 1855 to 24 Oct. 1858; commandant at Vellore 14 March 1856 to 1858; col. of 45 N.I. 9 Oct. 1860 to 1869; L.G. 25 June 1870. d. Elm bank, Malvern 10 May 1873.