The son of Richard Luther of Ongar, Essex, he was educated at Newcome's School in Hackney, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he matriculated in 1756, graduating B.A.
[2] A Whig, he left his wife in 1764 and went to Paris at the time when the government was pursuing John Wilkes.
[2] The family lived at Great Myles house in Kelvedon Hatch, near Ongar, Essex.
His nephew Francis Fane of Spettisbury (1752–1813), was MP for Lyme Regis and Dorset and inherited Luther's Ongar estate.
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