Alexander Luttrell (20 October 1663 – 22 September 1711) was an

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army officer and politician.

He was the third son of Francis Luttrell (1628–1666) of

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. His mother Lucy was a daughter of Thomas Symonds of

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, Cambridgeshire. Colonel Francis Luttrell (1659–1690) was his older brother. He inherited the heavily indebted

after the death of both his elder brothers and then his brother Francis's son in 1703. He sat in the

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from 1690 to 1707 as a

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(MP) for

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, and then held the seat for a further year in the

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. He married, in 1702, Dorothy, the daughter of Edward Yard of Churston Ferrers, Devon and had two sons and a daughter.

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