Hugh Courtenay Fownes Luttrell (10 February 1857 – 14 January 1918) was a British

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politician. He was elected at the 1892 general election as

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(MP) for the

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division of

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, regaining a seat where the Liberal MP

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had joined the

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s after his election in 1885. Luttrell's majority was a slender 2.5% of the votes, and although he increased it slightly in 1895, he did not contest the seat in

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, when the Liberal Unionist John Ward Spear won it with a majority of only 15 votes. Luttrell stood again at the 1906 general election and regained the seat by a wide margin, but his majority was cut in January 1910 and at the December 1910 general election Spear unseated him for a second time.

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* 1857 births 1918 deaths Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1892–1895 UK MPs 1895–1900 UK MPs 1906–1910

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