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John Luttrell-Olmius, 3rd Earl of Carhampton (11 December 1739 – 19 March 1829), styled The Honourable John Luttrell between 1768 and 1787 and as The Honourable John Luttrell-Olmius between 1787 and 1829, was an

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officer and politician who sat in the

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between 1774 and 1785.

Background

Born John Luttrell, he was the second son of

Simon Luttrell, 1st Earl of Carhampton Simon Luttrell, 1st Earl of Carhampton ( – 14 January 1787) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1754 to 1780. Biography He was the second son of Henry Luttrell, of Luttrellstown (whose family had he ...

by Judith Maria Lawes, daughter of Sir Nicholas Lawes,

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. He was the grandson of Colonel Henry Luttrell and the brother of

Henry Luttrell, 2nd Earl of Carhampton General (United Kingdom), General Henry Lawes Luttrell, 2nd Earl of Carhampton Privy Council of Ireland, PC (7 August 1743 – 25 April 1821) was a British Army officer and politician, who both in public and private life attracted scandal. He wa ...

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, and Lady Anne Luttrell, Duchess of Cumberland and Strathearn. He was a member of the Irish branch of the ancient family of Luttrell and a descendant of Sir Geoffrey de Luterel, who established

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in the early 13th century.

Naval and political career

Luttrell was a

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in the

but retired in 1789. He was returned to Parliament for Stockbridge in 1774, a seat he held until 1775, and again between 1780 and 1785. Between 1785 and 1826 he was a commissioner of

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. He succeeded his elder brother to the earldom in 1821. This was an

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and did not entitle him to an automatic seat in the

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Family

In 1766 Lord Carhampton married the Honorable Elizabeth Olmius, 1742-1797, daughter of

John Olmius, 1st Baron Waltham John Olmius, 1st Baron Waltham (18 July 1711 – 5 October 1762), of New Hall, Boreham, Essex, was a British landowner and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1737 and 1762. Background Olmius was the only son of John Olmius, ...

. In 1787, out of respect after the death of his father-in-law, he assumed by Royal Licence the additional surname of 'Olmius'. In 1798 he sold the Olmius family seat of

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to the founding nuns of

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. There were three children from Lord Carhampton's first marriage (however only his daughter would survive to adulthood):A. F. Blackstock, ‘Luttrell-Olmius, John, third earl of Carhampton’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Jan 2008
/ref> *Lady Frances Maria Luttrell (b. 1768), married Sir Simeon Stuart, 4th Baronet ( Stuart baronets). *James Luttrell (d. 1772). *John Luttrell (d. 1769). He married secondly Maria Morgan, daughter of John Morgan, in 1798. They had one child: *Lady Maria Anne Luttrell (1799–1857), married Lieutenant-Colonel Hardress Robert Saunderson. Lord Carhampton died in March 1829, aged 89, at which time the Earldom became extinct.

References

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