With access to a different library at the university today, I find (in a book) that the Tottenham who was a famous member of the Irish Parliament was Charles Tottenham, and he lived from 1685 to 1758. This is far too early for my 3X great grandfather to have worked for him. My 3X great grandfather was secretary or agent for Lord Loftus Tottenham around 1836 to possibly as late as 1850, when he married someone he met while on business for Lord Tottenham. But Charles Tottenham must be an ancestor of the Lord Loftus Tottenham my ancestor is really said to have worked for. Charles Tottenham, by his second wife Elizabeth, daughter of Nicholas Loftus, and sister and co-heir of Henry Loftus, earl of Ely, etc., had Charles Tottenham (afterwards Loftus) (1738-1806), who in connection with the negotiations preceding the Act of Union was [in 1800] created Marquis of Ely...and Viscount Loftus and Earl of Ely. He assumed the name of Luftus in 1783, and [in 1801] was created Baron Loftus of Long Loftus in the United Kingdom..." This is also too early to have been the individual my ancestor worked for. It appears from the data bases as well as teh above that the Tottenhams were a large family of gentry and quite a number of them used the middle name Loftus, I don't know about first name. If someone could tell me who would have been "Lord Loftus Tottenham" that my ancestor was supposedly working for around 1836, I would appreciate it. Yours, Dora Smith