Author: Luttrell, Henry
Biography:
LUTTRELL, Henry, formerly KING (1768-1851: ODNB)
He was born on 14 May 1768 and baptised on 7 June at St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London. In the baptismal record his parents’ names are given as Henry and Mary Luttrell but in fact they were not married. His mother (1740-1804), who had a second child with Luttrell in 1770, later went by the name of Mary Otto Baijer Nugent and was perhaps related to the Otto Baijers or Bayers of the time who owned estates in Antigua. The Luttrells were also slave-owners, with estates in Jamaica. Henry Lawes Luttrell (1737-1821), Irish by birth, was an MP in the English House of Commons from 1768 to 1774. In 1776 he married Jane Boyd of Dublin, but the marriage was childless. In 1787 he succeeded his father as the second Earl of Carhampton and took his seat in the Irish House of Lords. His son Henry attended Charterhouse School in London (1778-83) as Henry King and then went on to Trinity College Dublin (BA 1790, LLB 1791). Taking the name Luttrell, he was called to the bar in Ireland; secured a seat in the last Irish parliament in 1798; and went to the West Indies to see to his father’s estates in 1802 but did not stay long. He settled in London, moved in literary and Whiggish circles, and made himself, as one of the obituaries put it, one of “the ornaments of a society of . . . conversational wits” (Morning Post). He was a friend of Thomas Moore (q.v.), John Murray, Francis Jeffrey (q.v.), and many others. Besides the works listed here, he published two prose fictions, Life in the West (1828, 2nd edn. entitled Crockford’s) and Craven Derby (1832). He made a late marriage to Ann Springer Cutler (1803-61) at Holy Trinity, Brompton, London, on 2 Sept. 1850, but died at their home at 31 Brompton Square on 19 Dec. 1851 and was buried on 24 Dec. at the Brompton cemetery. In the 1851 census he had described his occupation as “Land Proprietor.” (ODNB 8 Feb. 2024; DIB 8 Feb. 2024; ancestry.com 8 Feb. 2024; findmypast.com 8 Feb. 2024; EN2; LBS; Charterhouse Register 1769-1872; Morning Post 26 Dec. 1851) HJ
Other Names:
- H. Luttrell