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 CARHAMPTON 23 CARGILL "Cargill," Viscountcy [S.], see "Perth," Dukedom, cr. 22 Oct. 1716 by the titular James III; and vol. i, Appendix F. CARHAMPTON and CARHAMPTON OF CASTLEHAVEN VISCOUNTCY I. Simon Luttrell, 2nd and only surv. s. of Major [I.] Gen. Henry L.,(^) of Luttrellstown.C) co. Dublin, by, „ Elizabeth, da. of Charles Jones, of Halkin, co. Flint, was ' ' ^.1713, four years before his father's murder. M.P. FARTnOM rn (Whig)for St. Michael 1755-61, for Wigan 1761-68, for l^AKLUum Li.j wgobley 1768-74, and for Stockbridge 1774-80. Hav- I. 1785. ing sue. his elder br.('=) in the family estates, he was cr., 13 Oct. 1768, BARON IRNHAM(^) OF LUT- TRELLSTOWN, CO. Dublin, and, subsequently, 9 Jan. 178 1, VISCOUNT CARHAMPTON n OF CASTLEHAVEN, co. Cork, and, finally, 2 3 June 1785,0 EARL OF CARHAMPTON [I.].0 He w., 1737, Judith Maria, (*) His desertion of the cause of James II is said to have caused the fatal defeat at Aughrim, a piece of treachery which excited "the abhorrence of the Roman Catholic population" in Ireland, by one of whom, finally, he was assassinated in Dublin, 22 Oct. 1717, aged 63. "Eighty years after his death, his grave, near Luttrellstown, was violated by the descendants of those whom he had betrayed, and his skull was broken to pieces with a pickaxe." {Macaulay). G.E.C. His elder br., Simon, who remained loyal to James II, was attainted, and d. s.p., 15 Oct. 1698, in France. V.G. C') This estate was owned by the Luttrells from the time of Henry VI until early in the 19th century, when it was sold to the bookseller Luke White, father of the 1st Baron Annaly [I.]. V.G. (') His will was proved 18 Aug. 1730. V.G. {^) These titles were taken from Irnham, in Lincolnshire, where a family of Luttrell (from whom the Luttrells of Somerset claimed descent) was long (1200-1400) settled; and from Carhampton, in Somerset, of which manor the Luttrells of Dunster in that CO. were possessors, the implication being that the Irish Luttrells were connected with the lords of Dunster. No such connection, however, has been established. See Sir Henry Maxwell-Lyte's History of Dunster (1909), Appendix D. (') He had been struggling to obtain this Earldom, certainly as early as July I774» and there is a letter of that date from Lord North printed in the Harcourt Papers, vol. ix, p. 216-17, which gives a typical picture of 1 8th cent. Irish politics. Col. Luttrell had applied that his father Lord Irnham should be advanced to an Earldom, and Lord North had replied that it would be impossible to recommend Lord I. for a mark of the royal favour while he was in declared opposition to the L. Lieut, of Ireland. Shortly after Lord I. called on Lord N. and informed him that he had "desisted from giving any further trouble in Pari.: — zealously contributed to voting the address" — which, to use Lord North's words, "he seemed to consider as a valuable consideration which entitled him to an Earldom immediately." For a list of the profuse creations and promotions in the Irish Peerage see Appendix H to this volume. V.G.