Thom's Irish Who's Who/Loftus, Major John Edward Blake
LOFTUS, Major John Edward Blake, D.L, J.P., Co. Kilkenny (High Sheriff, 1908), late Capt. 4th Batt. Royal Irish Regt.; Major Machine Gun Corps, 1916; second son of late John Murphy, J.P., of Mount Loftus, Co. Kilkenny, and of Richfield, Co. Wexford; b. 1876; m. 1903, Pauline May, only dau. of August Lichtenstadt, of 19 Seymour Street, W.; assumed name of Loftus in lieu of Murphy by royal licence, Res.: Mount Loftus, Goresbridge, Kilkenny. Kildare Street Club, Dublin.