Francis Fownes Luttrell

Francis Fownes Luttrell (9 February 1756 – 24 April 1823) was a British politician who was a member of parliament for Minehead from 1780 to 1783. He was also a commissioner for Taxes and later for Customs, before serving as chair of the board of Customs from 1813 to 1819.

Personal life Early life Fownes Luttrell was born on 9 February 1756, the third son of Henry Fownes Luttrell (né Fownes) and his wife, Margaret, the daughter and heiress of Alexander Luttrell of Dunster Castle. Henry Fownes added Luttrell to his surname on his marriage of Margaret Luttrell and became the proprietor or Dunster, as well as a number of other manors. He worked to consolidate his family's interest in the borough of Minehead, and, by 1774 effectively controlled both of that borough's seats in the House of Commons.

He was educated at Eton College, which he attended from 1771. He was admitted at Queen's College, Oxford, and matriculated in 1773. In 1782, he was admitted at the Middle Temple.

Family He married, on 21 April 1788, Charlotte, third daughter of Francis Drewe of Grange in Devon. They had five sons and seven daughters, Charlotte Fownes Luttrell (1790–1819). In 1810, she married the Venerable Charles Abel Moysey , Archdeacon of Bath. Anne Fownes Luttrell (1791–1846). She married Abel Moysey of Charterhouse Hinton in 1829. Marcia Fownes Luttrell (born 1799). She married Douglas Wynne Stuart (1801–1855) in 1842; he was the son of the Honourable Archibald Stuart (1771–1832), fourth son of Francis Stuart, 9th Earl of Moray (1737–1810). They had one son, Douglas Moray Stuart (born 1843).

Mrs Fownes Luttrell died on 27 April 1817. He died on 24 April 1823.

Likenesses Portrait of Francis Fownes Luttrell by Richard Phelps, chalk on paper, 1777, in the possession of the National Trust and housed at Dunster Castle, National Trust Collections, National Trust Inventory Number 726102. Portrait of an unknown gentleman, possibly Francis Fownes Luttrell, by Karl Anton Hickel, oil on canvas, 1793, in the possession of the National Trust and housed at Dunster Castle, BBC Your Paintings (see also National Trust Collections, National Trust Inventory Number 726117).