Peter Latouche

Peter La Touche (c. 1775 – 11 February 1830) was a landowner and Irish politician. The La Touche family were Huguenots originally from France and settled in Ireland after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes which deprived the French Protestants of all religious and civil liberties, leading to largescale emigration. He was the son of David La Touche MP, of Marlay, County Dublin and educated at Harrow School (1786–1791) and Trinity College, Dublin He succeeded his uncle Peter Latouche, MP, to Bellevue House, County Wicklow in 1828. He became a Member of Parliament for County Leitrim 1802–1806.