Kingdom of Great Britain General Henry Lawes Luttrell, 2nd Earl of Carhampton PC (7 August 1743 – 25 April 1821) 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.

Luttrell was born in Cranford, Middlesex, the scion of an Anglo-Irish landed family, descendants of Sir Geoffrey de Luterel, who established Luttrellstown Castle, County Dublin, in the early 13th century.

His mother, Maria, was the daughter of Sir Nicholas Lawes, Governor of Jamaica, and the eventual heir to a slave plantation on the West Indian island which, on her husband's death in 1787, passed to her son.

[5] Luttrell, described as "strong in body, if not in mind", achieved a reputation for bravery as a soldier during the Seven Years' War,[6] becoming Deputy Adjutant-General of the British Forces in Portugal.

[7] With the support of the Grafton ministry and of the Court, in 1769 Luttrell stood in Middlesex against John Wilkes, the radical and popular figure who had already been the constituency's three-time democratic choice.

He continued to sit in the Commons, where he described the Whigs in their opposition to the conduct of the American War, as "the abetters of treason and rebellion combined purposely for the ruin of their country".

[11] Carhampton was seen by his critics as having "fanned the flame of disaffection into open rebellion" by "the picketings, the free quarters, half hangings, flogging and pitch-cappings" he directed.

At the same time, he opposed lifting civil disabilities on Roman Catholics by abolishing the Test Act in Scotland, and spoke scathingly of parliamentary reform.

In June 1817, five weeks short of his eightieth birthday, Luttrell found his own way back to Parliament as Member for Ludgershall[4] and revenged himself, in the four years remaining to him, by voting with the opposition.

Quite from his father's tastes, he was a frequent companion of Thomas Moore,[16] Ireland's national bard, a hagiographer of United Irishmen and a close confidante of leading Whigs.