Simon Luttrell, 1st Earl of Carhampton ( – 14 January 1787) was a British politician who sat in the
House of Commons of Great Britain
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from 1754 to 1780.
Biography
He was the second son of
Henry Luttrell, of Luttrellstown (whose family had held
Luttrellstown since the land there had been granted to Sir
Geoffrey de Luterel in about 1210 by King
John of England
John (24 December 1166 – 19 October 1216) was King of England from 1199 until his death in 1216. He lost the Duchy of Normandy and most of his other French lands to King Philip II of France, resulting in the collapse of the Angevin Empi ...
) and his wife Elizabeth Jones. His father had been a noted commander in the
Jacobite Irish Army
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between 1689 and 1691. He later received a
pardon from the
Williamite authorities and was accused by his former Jacobite comrades of having betrayed them. He was murdered when his
sedan chair was attacked in
Dublin
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in 1717.
Simon Luttrell served as a
Member of Parliament in the
House of Commons of Great Britain
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for four constituencies:
Mitchell (1755–1761),
Wigan (1761–1768),
Weobley (1768–1774) and
Stockbridge (1774–1780).
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On 13 October 1768, he was created Baron Irnham of Luttrellstown in the Peerage of Ireland. As his title was an Irish peerage
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Peerages include:
A ...
, he was able to keep his seat in the British House of Commons. He was elevated to the title of Viscount Carhampton on 9 January 1781 and was made Earl of Carhampton on 23 June 1785. He lived at Four Oaks Hall, Four Oaks, Sutton Coldfield, from 1751 to 1766.[
On 22 January 1735, he married Judith Maria Lawes,][England & Wales, Non-Conformist and Non-Parochial Registers, 1567-1970 (The National Archives, Kew, England), Page 43, Item 201, via Ancestry.com](_blank)
daughter of Sir Nicholas Lawes, Governor of Jamaica and Elizabeth Cotton (née Lawley), by whom he had eight children:
* Henry Lawes Luttrell, 2nd Earl of Carhampton (1743–1821)
* John Luttrell-Olmius, 3rd Earl of Carhampton (c. 1745 – 1829), married the Honorable Elizabeth Olmius and in 1787 by Royal Licence the additional surname of 'Olmius' out of respect after his father-in-law died.
* Temple Simon Luttrell (c. 1738 – 1803)
* James Luttrell (c. 1751 – 1788), naval officer, died of consumption.["Luttrell, Henry (c.1765-1851)", ''Dictionary of National Biography'', (Leslie Stephens, ed.), Smith, Elder, & Company, 1893](_blank)
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* Thomas Luttrell (died 1766)
* Anne Luttrell (1743 – 1808), married first in 1765 Christopher Horton, married second in 1771 to Prince Henry, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn, brother of King George III of the United Kingdom
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, without consent, resulting in the Royal Marriages Act 1772.
* Elizabeth Luttrell (1744-1799)
* Lucy Luttrell
Judith was the heir to a slave plantation owned by her father, which after the marriage came into Luttrell's ownership, and eventually passed into the control of his son.
References
External links
''The Diaboliad, a poem dedicated to the worst man in His Majesty's dominions''
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