Volume 13 , Issue 18

Owners of Luttrellstown In 1226

The Robert Luttrell who has been mentioned as having settled on the bands of the Liffey, near Dublin, at Luttrellstown, was in 1226 treasurer of St. Patrick's Chatedral, and in 1236 was Lord Chancellor of Ireland. There is mention of a Michael Luttrell, who owned the same estate at the close of the century, and later in 1349 of a Simon Luttrell, who died in the possession of the property.

-- I. Robert Luttrell, who married a daughter of Sir Elias de Ashbourne, of Devon, England, and by this marriage added materially to his already large estate.

-- II. Christopher, son of Robert Luttrell, married Catherine, daughter of Thomas Rochfort, ancestor of the Earl of Belvedere. They had one son, Richard.

-- III. Richard, son of Christopher and Catherine (Rochfort) Luttrell, married a daughter of Patrick Fitz-Leon, Esq., and they had a son, Sir Thomas.

-- IV. Sir Thomas Luttrell, son of Richard Luttrell, was in the reign of Henry the Eighth the Chief Justice of Ireland. He married Anne, daughter of Baron Aylmer, ancestor of Lord Aylmer, and they had a son, Richard.

-- V. Richard (2), son of Sir Thomas Luttrell, married Mary, daughter of Lord Dufany, and they had a son, Thomas.

-- VI. Thomas (2), son of Richard (2) Luttrell, had the audacity to make a comparison with the Earl of Thomond, the Chief of the O'Briens, in the Lord Deputy's presence. He married Eleanor Preston, daughter of Christopher, fourth Lord Viscount Gormanston, by Catherine, daughter of William Fitz William and had a son, Simon.

-- VII. Simon, son of Thomas (2) and Eleanor (Preston) Luttrell, was made a gentleman of the Bedchamber to Charles the Second. He married Janice, daughter of the fifth Viscount Gormanston, a cousin, and had sons: Simon, Henry, Robert. The last named (Robert) was the founder of the American family.

-- VIII. Simon (2) and Henry, sons of Simon (1) Luttrell, were both prominent in the war between James the Second and the Prince of Orange. Simon at that time being the governor of the city of Dublin. At the close of the war Simon chose to go to France with other Irish soldiers, and afterwards commanded an Irish regiment in foreign service. Seeing before the close of the war that William's forces would be victorious, Henry left the cause of King James and took with him a large command of Irish soldiers, and was at the close of the war fighting under the flag of William, and to this day some historians place the responsibility for the defeat of James to the defection of Henry Luttrell at this time.nHe has been cleared of all blame in the matter by the more careful English historians. Henry's descendants became very prominent and Henry occupied at different times important positions in Ireland and was held in high esteem by King William. He married Elizabeth Jones, and had sons: Robert, (considered by some genealogists as the founder of the American family, but the evidences point rather to Robert (2) Luttrell, the uncle of this Robert (3) Luttrell, being the American progenitor); Simon, who was made by George the Third first Baron Irnham, second Viscount Carhampton, and later still Earl of Carhampton.

-- IX. Simon (3), son of Henry and Elizabeth (Jones) Luttrell, married Maria, daughter and heir to Sir Nicholas Lawes, governor of Jamaica, and had issue: Henry Lawes, his heir; Temple Simon; John, who married a daughter of Lord Waltham, taking his name and title; James, commander of the ship "Mediator," which did no little damage to the American cause in their war for independence; and a daughter, Lady Anne, who became the wife of William, Duke of Cumberland, brother of George the Third and of whom Junius wrote, "Let parliament see to it that a Luttrell never wears the crown of England."

All of these left no issue and the title became extinct about 1829, while just previous to this time the large estate of Luttrellstown (1821) passed into the hands of Luke White, of Dublin, ancestor to the 1913 owner Lord Annaly. Henry Lawes Luttrell, second Earl of Carhampton, represented Middlesex just previous to the period of the American Revolution, and was the agent of the government acting under Lord North during these stirring times.

The overthrow of Wilkes, who was a bigamous champion of the well-known "letters of Iunius," and the giving of his seat to Luttrell, caused such an outcry format the English populace that Luttrell was a number of times threatened with his life. Lord North stubbornly held his position against the English people who wanted to give the American colonists their demands, and made Luttrell the tool in bringing to completion those nefarious schemes which culminated in the declaration on the part of the colonists of their independence, and the throwing off of the rule of the mother country. It is quite within the range of possibility that the war might have been averted had Wilkes represented the people at this vital time.   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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