Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Luttrell, Simon
LUTTRELL, SIMON (d. 1698), colonel, was eldest son of Thomas Luttrell (d. 1674) of Luttrellstown, co. Dublin, by a daughter of William Segrave. Henry Luttrell (1655?–1717) [q. v.] was his brother. Simon married, in August 1672, Catherine, daughter of Sir Thomas Newcomen, bart., in whose regiment he was lieutenant-colonel, and succeeded to the family property on his father's death in 1674. Luttrell was a devoted adherent of James II, levied a regiment of dragoons for his service, and received from him the appointment of lord-lieutenant of the county of Dublin, and membership of the privy council in Ireland. He sat as one of the representatives of the county of Dublin in the Irish parliament of 1689, and was made military governor of that city. Two orders are extant issued by Luttrell in May and June 1690, in relation to the protestant inhabitants of Dublin at that time. To the measures adopted by Luttrell was ascribed the preservation of Dublin for the Jacobites against the designs of Schomberg. Luttrell retained the governorship of Dublin till the withdrawal of James II in July 1690. He was one of the Irish representatives who went to France in that year to urge on James II the propriety of removing the Duke of Tyrconnel from the office of viceroy. The Duke of Berwick, who was well acquainted with Luttrell, tells us that he always appeared to him to be an honest man, and that he was of an accommodating disposition. Luttrell was on board the French fleet which arrived too late to aid the Irish in October 1690, and returned to France, where he was appointed colonel of the queen's regiment of infantry in the army of King James. The treaty of Limerick contained a clause of indemnity to Luttrell and other Irish officers who should return to Ireland within eight months and swear allegiance to William and Mary. By not accepting this condition Luttrell became liable to attainder, which was duly put in force against himself and his wife. Luttrell served until 1696 in Italy as brigadier, under Marshal Catinat, and he was subsequently attached with his regiment to the forces of the Duke de Vendôme in Catalonia. The present writer possesses two official documents executed in Catalonia by Luttrell as ‘colonel du regiment d'infanterie de la Reine d'Angleterre & brigadier des armées du Roy.’ The first is dated at Girona 19 Dec. 1697; the second was signed at Perpignan 20 Feb. 1698. An inscription to Luttrell's memory in the Irish College at Paris records that his death took place on 6 Sept. 1698. Archdall in his ‘Peerage of Ireland,’ 1789, iii. 411, erroneously stated that Luttrell was slain at Landen in 1693. This error has been repeated in Burke's ‘Extinct Peerage.’
[King's State of the Protestants, 1692; Mémoires du Maréchal de Berwick, 1778; Life of James II, 1816; Macariæ Excidium, 1850; Dalton's Irish Army List, 1860; O'Callaghan's Hist. of Irish Brigades, 1860; J. T. Gilbert's Jacobite Narrative, 1892.]