Sir Edward Crofton, 1st Baronet
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Sir Edward Crofton, 1st Baronet (1624–1675) was an Anglo-Irish Royalist politician.
Crofton was the son of George Crofton of Ballymurray, County Roscommon and Elizabeth Berkeley, daughter of Sir Francis Berkeley and Catherine Loftus, and granddaughter of Adam Loftus, Archbishop of Armagh. The Crofton family had come to Ireland in the sixteenth century and settled in County Roscommon. His father sat in the Irish House of Commons as MP for Askeaton in the Irish Parliament of 1639. At about the same time he began the building of Mote Park House, which Edward inherited, and remained the family seat for generations.
Education
Crofton entered Trinity College, Dublin on 15 February 1640.[1]
