Captain John Luttrell-Olmius, 3rd Earl of Carhampton, styled The Honourable John Luttrell between 1768 and 1787 and as The Honourable John Luttrell-Olmius between 1787 and 1829, was an Irish naval commander and politician.
Background
Born John Luttrell, he was the second son of Simon Luttrell, 1st Earl of Carhampton by Judith Maria Lawes, daughter of Sir Nicholas Lawes, Governor of Jamaica. He was the grandson of Colonel Henry Luttrell and the brother of Henry Luttrell, 2nd Earl of Carhampton, James Luttrell and Lady Anne Luttrell.
Career
Luttrell was a captain in the Royal Navy but retired in 1789. He was returned to Parliament for Stockbridge in 1774, a seat he held until 1775, and again between 1780 and 1785. Between 1785 and 1826 he was a Commissioner of Excise.
This was an Irish peerage and did not entitle him to an automatic seat in the House of Lords.
Lord Carhampton married the Honourable Elizabeth Olmius, daughter of John Olmius, 1st Baron Waltham, in 1766. In 1798 he sold the Olmius family seat of New Hall to the founding nuns of New Hall School.
Lady Frances Maria Luttrell Stuart (b 1768), married Sir Simeon Stuart, 4th Baronet. James Luttrell (d 1772).
John Luttrell (d 1769).
They had one child:
Lady Maria Anne Luttrell (1799–1857), married Lieutenant-Colonel Hardress Robert Saunderson. Lord Carhampton died in March 1829, aged 89, when the earldom became extinct. Maria, Countess of Carhampton, died in January 1857.
Membership
14th Parliament of Great Britain. 15th Parliament of Great Britain]
He was a member of the Irish branch of the ancient family of Luttrell and a descendant of Sir Geoffrey de Luterel, who established Luttrellstown Castle, County Dublin in the early 13th century.