LUTTRELL, HENRY (c. 17651851)

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LUTTRELL, HENRY (c. 17651851) , English wit and writer of society verse; was the illegitimate son of Henry

Lawes

LAWES, HENRY (1595-1662)
LAWES, SIR JOHN BENNET, BART

Luttrell, 2nd

earl

EARL

of Carhampton (17431821), a grandson of Colonel Henry Luttrell (c. 16J51717), who served James II. in Ireland in 1689 and 1690, and afterwards deserted him, being murdered in Dublin in November 1717. Colonel Luttrell's son Simon (17131787) was created

earl

EARL

of Carhampton in 1785, and the latter's son was Henry

Lawes

LAWES, HENRY (1595-1662)
LAWES, SIR JOHN BENNET, BART

Luttrell. Before succeeding to the peerage, the 2nd earl, then Colonel Luttrell, had won notoriety by opposing John Wilkes at the

Middlesex

MIDDLESEX
MIDDLESEX, LIONEL CRANFIELD, 1ST EARL OF (1575-1645)

election of 1769. He was beaten at the poll, but the

House

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

of Commons declared that he and not Wilkes had been elected. In 1796 he was made

commander

COMMANDER

of the forces in Ireland and in 1798 he became a general. Being an Irish peer, Carhampton was able to sit in the English parliament until his death in April 1821. The earldom became extinct on the death of his brother John, the 3rd earl, in 1829.
Henry Luttrell secured a seat in the Irish parliament in 1798 and a post in the Irish government, which he commuted for a pension. Introduced into London society by the duchess of Devonshire, his wit made him popular. Soon he began to write verse, in which the foibles of fashionable people were outlined. In 182o he published his Advice to Julia, of which a second edition, altered and amplified, appeared in 1823 as Letters to Julia in Rhyme. This poem, suggested by the ode to

Lydia

LYDIA

in the first book of

Horace

HORACE [QuINTus HORATIUS FLACCUS] (65-8 B.C.)

's Odes, was his most important

work

WORK

. His more serious literary contemporaries nicknamed it " Letters of a Dandy to a Dolly." In 1827 in Crockford

House

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

he wrote a satire on the high play then in vogue. Byron characterized him as " the best sayer of good things, and the most epigrammatic conversationist I ever met "; Sir Walter Scott wrote of him as " the

great

GREAT

London wit," and Lady Blessington described him as the one talker " who always makes me think." Luttrell died in London on the 19th of December 1851.

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