Tavistock, Devon, which Hugh Luttrell represented as a Member of Parliament.
hugh luttrell, born 1857
LIBERAL MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT
Hugh Courtenay Fownes Luttrell was a younger son of the Luttrell family of Dunster Castle, Somerset. He chose an Army career, going into the Rifle Brigade. He was ADC to Lord Cowper and then Lord Spencer when each was Governor of Ireland. During his time there he enjoyed the hunting and polo. After leaving the army, he became a Liberal Party politician. He was elected at the 1892 general election as Member of Parliament for the Tavistock division of Devon, regaining a seat where the Liberal MP Viscount Ebrington had joined the Liberal Unionists after his election in 1885. Luttrell's majority was a slender 2.5% of the votes, and although he increased it slightly in 1895, he did not contest the seat in 1900, when the Liberal Unionist John Ward Spear won it with a majority of only 15 votes. Luttrell stood again at the 1906 general election and regained the seat by a wide margin.
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