What is Augustus Loftus?
{{Infobox Governor |honorific-prefix= [[The Right Honourable]] |name=Lord Augustus Loftus |honorific-suffix= [[Order of the Bath|GCB]] |image=Augustus Loftus.jpg |caption= Lord Augustus Loftus by unknown photographer | order =15th [[Governors of New South Wales|Governor of New South Wales]] | term_start =4 August 1879 | term_end =9 November 1885 | predecessor =[[Hercules Robinson, 1st Baron Rosmead|Hercules Robinson]] | successor =[[Charles Wynn-Carington, 1st Marquess of Lincolnshire|The Lord Carrington]] |birth_name= |birth_date={{birth date|1817|10|4|df=y}} |birth_place= |death_date={{death date and age|1904|3|7|1817|10|4|df=y}} |death_place= [[Surrey]], [[England]] |death_cause = |resting_place = |resting_place_coordinates = }} '''Lord Augustus William Frederick Spencer Loftus''', {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100|sep=,|GCB|PC}} (4 October 1817 – 7 March 1904) was a British diplomat and colonial administrator. He was [[List of diplomats of the United Kingdom to Germany|Ambassador to Prussia]] from 1865 to 1868, to the [[North German Confederation]] from 1868 to 1871 and to the [[Russian Empire]] from 1871 to 1879 and [[Governor of New South Wales]] from 1879 to 1885.<ref>Australian Dictionary of Biography Online Edition [http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A050117b.htm] Retrieved 13 June 2010.</ref> == References == {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Loftus, Lord Augustus}} [[Category:1817 births]] [[Category:1904 deaths]] [[Category:Governors of New South Wales]] [[Category:Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom]] [[Category:Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath]] [[Category:Ambassadors of the United Kingdom]] {{-}} {{bio-stub}}