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General Sir Loftus William Otway, CB (28 April 1775 – 7 June 1854) was an experienced and professional cavalry commander of British forces during the Peninsula War who saw extensive service under Sir John Moore in the Corunna Campaign and Wellington in the remainder of the campaign. He also worked training Portuguese troops and spent time serving in Ireland during the 1798 rebellion and Canada. Otway retired after the Peninsula War and was honoured several times for his war service by both the British and Spanish royal families.
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Ireland. His parents were Cooke and Elizabeth Otway and his elder brothers included Admiral Robert Otway and Loftus who became a general. Cooke had been an...
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General Sir LoftusOtway was the younger brother of the first Baronet. Sir Robert Waller Otway, 1st Baronet (1772–1846) Sir George Graham Otway, 2nd Baronet...
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Otway. One of his younger brothers was LoftusOtway, later a significant army officer of the Peninsular War. Otway however, chose a navy career over his...
(20 km) south of the frontier fortress-town of Badajoz, Spain. Marshal Sir William Beresford had been given the task of reconstructing the Portuguese army...
Otway in 1685. His descendants included Admiral Sir Robert Otway, 1st Bt., General Sir LoftusWilliamOtway and the author Caesar Otway. Henry Otway (1768–1815)...
mother was the granddaughter of General Sir LoftusWilliamOtway; the Otway family possessed Castle Otway in County Tipperary, Ireland. Beamish's brother...
present day, with a sketch of the history of the Staff College` (London: William Heinemann, 1900)". Archived from the original on 29 July 2018. Retrieved...
1820 Ball p. 80 Otway-Ruthven p. 302 Otway-Ruthven p. 3i6 Ball p. 98 Otway-Ruthven p. 370 Otway-Ruthven, p.386 Otway-Ruthven p. 389 Otway-Ruthven p. 391...
Charles Bankhead, Chargé d'Affaires 1851–1858: Percy William Doyle 1858–1860: Loftus Charles Otway 1860–1864: Charles Lennox Wyke 1864–1867: Peter Campbell...
Chamber Court in Ireland Otway-Ruthven, A.J. A History of Medieval Ireland Barnes and Noble reissue New York 1993 p.277 Otway-Ruthven p.277 Kenny, Colum...
Harlech. 1888: George Charles Loftus Tottenham. 1889: William Clifford Bermingham Otway-Ruthven. 1890: Johnstone William Robert Parke of Dunally. 1891:...
town of Killarney in County Kerry, Ireland. In 1932 it was presented by William Bowers Bourn and Arthur Rose Vincent to the Irish nation. It thus became...
Castle Lisnavagh House Loftus Hall Luggala Lodge Lyons Demesne Maynooth Castle Marlfield House Middleton Park House Mount Loftus Portlick Castle Powerscourt...
British cavalry back onto the inlying picket commanded by LoftusOtway (18th Hussars). Otway charged, despite heavy odds, but was driven back for 2 miles...
Charles John Tottenham 31 May 1969 6 July 1972 Baron Loftus Other The Marquess Conyngham Frederick William Henry Francis Conyngham 1 April 1974 0? Baron Minster...
Irish place name: Cloch an Otbhaidhigh, meaning 'the stone structure of Otway', Otway being an Anglo-Norman family name. Capt. Robert Oliver's descendant...
required.) Curry, William (1852). "A Pilgrimage to Quilea in the Year 1852". The Dublin University Magazine. XL (CCXXXI). William Curry, Jun., and Co...
granted to Strongbow. Strongbow's daughter and heiress, Isabel married William Marshall in 1189. Marshall owned large estates in Ireland, England, Wales...
the river Shannon, was in the hands of Rear-Admiral Penn, the father of William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania. After a long siege, the Confederates took...
Ballentaylor and Ballylemon) Newtown Anner House, County Tipperary Otway family Castle Otway, County Tipperary O'Brien baronets (Boris-in-Ossory) Lohort Castle...
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