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Henry Luttrell

British Army general

Died when: 77 years 261 days (932 months)
Star Sign: Leo

 

Henry Luttrell

General Henry Lawes Luttrell, 2nd Earl of Carhampton PC (7 August 1743 – 25 April 1821) was an Anglo-Irish politician and soldier.He was the son of Simon Luttrell, 1st Earl of Carhampton and brother-in-law of Prince Henry, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn.

He had command in Ireland during the 1798 rebellion, and was renowned for a violent counter-insurgency untrammelled by legal considerations for him.

In his last years as a Member of the Westminster Parliament he opposed reform and defended the violent suppression of democratic agitation in the Peterloo Massacre.


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