Walter Luttrell

Colonel Sir Geoffrey Walter Fownes Luttrell KCVO MC KStJ JP (2 October 1919 – 3 April 2007) was an English landowner in Somerset and a soldier who distinguished himself during the Second World War.

He grew up at Dunster Castle, his family's seat for six hundred years, then was educated at Eton and subsequently read Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Exeter College, Oxford, where he acquired the friendly nickname of "Goat".

In April 1945, during the advance into Germany and the fighting around Ibbenbüren, Luttrell's squadron seized a pass above the Teutoburger Wald and fought along the ridge there for a day without support, against heavy opposition.

He was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Somerset in 1978, an office he held until 1994, was made a Knight of the Order of St John in 1981,[1] and a KCVO in 1993.

The coat of arms of the head of the Luttrell family of Dunster Castle is blazoned Or, a bend between six martlets sable, and the crest a boar passant argent crined or.