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LUTTRELL, HENRY (c. 1765–1851)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 143 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LUTTRELL, See also:HENRY (c. 1765–1851) , See also:English wit and writer of society See also:verse; was the illegitimate son of Henry See also:Lawes Luttrell, 2nd See also:earl of Carhampton (1743–1821), a See also:grandson of See also:Colonel Henry Luttrell (c. 16J5–1717), who served See also:James II. in See also:Ireland in 1689 and 1690, and afterwards deserted him, being murdered in See also:Dublin in See also:November 1717. Colonel Luttrell's son See also:Simon (1713–1787) was created earl of Carhampton in 1785, and the latter's son was Henry Lawes Luttrell. Before succeeding to the See also:peerage, the 2nd earl, then Colonel Luttrell, had won notoriety by opposing See also:John Wilkes at the See also:Middlesex See also:election of 1769. He was beaten at the See also:poll, but the See also:House of See also:Commons declared that he and not Wilkes had been elected. In 1796 he was made See also:commander of the forces in Ireland and in 1798 he became a See also:general. Being an Irish peer, Carhampton was able to sit in the English See also:parliament until his See also:death in See also:April 1821. The earldom became See also:extinct on the death of his See also:brother John, the 3rd earl, in 1829. Henry Luttrell secured a seat in the Irish parliament in 1798 and a See also:post in the Irish See also:government, which he commuted for a See also:pension. Introduced into See also:London society by the duchess of See also:Devonshire, his wit made him popular. Soon he began to write verse, in which the foibles of fashionable See also:people were outlined.

In 182o he published his See also:

Advice to Julia, of which a second edition, altered and amplified, appeared in 1823 as Letters to Julia in See also:Rhyme. This poem, suggested by the See also:ode to See also:Lydia in the first See also:book of See also:Horace's Odes, was his most important See also:work. His more serious See also:literary contemporaries nicknamed it " Letters of a See also:Dandy to a Dolly." In 1827 in See also:Crockford House he wrote a See also:satire on the high See also:play then in See also:vogue. See also:Byron characterized him as " the best See also:sayer of See also:good things, and the most epigrammatic conversationist I ever met "; See also:Sir See also:Walter See also:Scott wrote of him as " the See also:great London wit," and See also:Lady See also:Blessington described him as the one talker " who always makes me think." Luttrell died in London on the 19th of See also:December 1851.

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