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to the more recent investigations of the parish heritage. His expansive diaries, and various other documents, including a comprehensive listing of monumental inscriptions in St. James’ churchyard, West
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Though his writings about the village were limited to short articles in local newspapers (‘Bata Record’, ‘Grays and
Tilbury Gazette’), Loftus envisaged a substantial work, for which meticulous research notebooks were filled. These, and his correspondence late in life from Africa, proved invaluable
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Citizen’ (1935) and a family record of his wife’s antecedents – ‘The Descendants of Maxmilian Cole’ (1938). She was Elsie, daughter of a notable landowner and agriculturalist Allen Charles Cole of
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Territorial Decoration. In 1929 he was appointed Deputy Lieutenant for the county of Essex, serving thereafter in that capacity for 46 years. In 1935 he was living at ‘Polwicks’, Low Street,
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