Thomas Lutwyche (baptised 1675 – 1734) of the Inner Temple and Lutwyche Hall, Shropshire, was an English lawyer and Tory politician who sat in the

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almost continuously from 1710 to 1734.

Life

Lutwyche was the son of Sir Edward Lutwyche,

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, and his wife Anne Tourneur, daughter of Sir Timothy Tourneur. He was a scholar at

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, and was elected to

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, where he matriculated 4 July 1692, but took no degree. Lutwyche was

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at the

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in 1697. He was reader there in 1715, and treasurer of the inn in 1722. Lutwyche was reluctant to enter politics, and did so in the end with the backing of

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. He was elected

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for at the

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and

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general elections in fiercely competed contests. At the

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he was returned unopposed for Appleby. He was elected MP for at the 1722 general election, probably with the support of Sir John Coryton, but did not stand in

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. However he was then returned as MP for on the Drake interest at a by-election on 23 February 1728 and was re-elected there at the 1734 general election. A

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, Lutwyche was made

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in 1710. He rejected an offer from Robert Harley to become a judge, in 1711. He delivered on 6 November 1723 a speech in parliament against the bill for taxing Catholics. At the end of his life, in 1734, Lutwyche bought

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from Thomas Smalman. He died on 13 November 1734, and was buried in the Inner Temple Church.

Works

Lutwyche left some manuscript law reports from the

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. They were published in 1781, in pt. xi. of ''Modern Reports''.

Family

Lutwyche married Elizabeth Bagnall, daughter of William Bagnall of

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and had 2 sons and 3 daughters. Their daughter Anne married

Nicholas Fazakerley Nicholas Fazakerley (1685?–1767), of Prescot, Merseyside, was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1732 to 1767. Early life Fazakerley was the son of Henry Fazakerley, of Fazakerley, near Liverpool. He was pr ...

; their third daughter Sarah married Thomas Geers (died 1753), Member of Parliament for

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;Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Lutwyche, Thomas Year of birth missing 1734 deaths English barristers Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies British MPs 1710–1713 British MPs 1713–1715 British MPs 1722–1727 British MPs 1727–1734 Members of the Inner Temple