Thomas Fownes Luttrell (10 February 1763 – 19 January 1811)[1] from Dunster Castle in Somerset was an English officer in the British Army and briefly a Tory politician.
Like many previous generations of Luttrells since the 16th century, he was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Minehead, his family's pocket borough near Dunster.
[1] After his father's death in 1780, his oldest brother John had succeeded to the family estates, including control of Minehead's parliamentary representation.
[4][5] A vacancy arose in 1795 when Viscount Parker succeeded to the peerage, and John then nominated his younger brother Thomas, who was in poor health after returning from service in the West Indies.
The London banker John Langston had purchased land in the borough on which he had built houses, and set out challenge the Luttrell interest.