Robert Ponsonby Tottenham (5 September 1773 – 28 April 1850; Robert Ponsonby Loftus until 1806) was an Irish Anglican Bishop in the first half of the 19th century.Burke's Peerage 1967 p1201
He was born the younger sonClare Library of Charles Loftus, 1st Marquess of Ely and Jane Myhill, daughter of Robert Myhill of Killarney, in Woodstock, County WicklowNational Archives on 5 September 1773 thePeerage.com and educated at Christ Church, Oxford.Tottenham name He was Precentor of Cashel from 1798 until 1804The Morning Chronicle (London, England), Wednesday, 5 December 1804; Issue 11091 when he was elevated to the episcopateNational Library of Ireland as Bishop of Killaloe and Kilfenora."A New History of Ireland" Moody, T.M; Martin, F.X; Byrne, F.J; Cosgrove, F:Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1976 Upon his father's death, he inherited the family's Tottenham Green estate, changing his surname back to the older family name of Tottenham. In 1820 he was translated to FernsFryde, E. B; Greenway, D. E; Porter, S; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third Edition, revised ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. . and two years later to Clogher, where he replaced the disgraced Bishop Jocelyn.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. 73–77Dictionary of Irish Biography (D.I.B.): Jocelyn, Percy. https://www.dib.ie/biography/jocelyn-percy-a4281 He died in postClogher Anglican on 28 April 1850.The Times, Wednesday, 1 May 1850; pg. 8; Issue 20477; col B Ireland
He married the Hon. Alicia Maude, daughter of Cornwallis Maude, 1st Viscount Hawarden and his third wife Anne Monck, and had numerous children of whom seven reached adult life, including the youngest, George Tottenham, Dean of Clogher 1900-03.
There is a memorial tablet to him in Clogher Cathedral."Clogher clergy and parishes: being an account of the clergy of the Church of Ireland in the Diocese of Clogher, from the earliest period, with historical notices of the several parishes, churches, etc" Leslie, J.B. p 23/4: Enniskille; R. H. Ritchie; 1929
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