Henry Luttrell, 2nd Earl of Carhampton.

About Henry Luttrell, 2nd Earl of Carhampton

General Henry Lawes Luttrell, 2nd Earl of Carhampton, was a British Army officer and politician, who both in public and private life attracted scandal. He was spurned by colleagues in the British House of Commons who believed that in the election of 1769 he had played an underhand role in denying his seat to the popular choice, the reformer John Wilkes. In 1788 he was publicly accused in Dublin of raping a twelve-year-old girl. Ten years later, his command in the suppression of the Irish Rebellion of 1798 was criticised by fellow officers for its brutality. His last years in Parliament were marked by his opposition to Catholic Emancipation, and to parliamentary reform.