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Alexander Luttrell (10 May 1705 – 4 June 1737), the eldest son of Colonel Alexander Luttrell, of Dunster Castle, Somerset, was the last in the male line of the Luttrell family, which had owned Dunster Castle since 1376.
Margaret Luttrell was Alexander Luttrell's sole heiress. She married Henry Fownes of Nethway House, Devon, her second cousin, on 16 February 1747, when she came of age. On their marriage Dunster Castle became the property of her husband as married women in England were legally incapable of owning property until 1882. Henry Fownes adopted the additional surname Luttrell after his own, and adopted the Luttrell arms (but continued to quarter Fownes), in accordance with a stipulation in Alexander Luttrell's will.
The heirs and descendants of Henry Fownes Luttrell continued this tradition through Sir Walter Fownes Luttrell (died 2007), who was the last private owner of Dunster Castle. Upon the death of his mother in
1974, Walter Luttrell gave the castle to the National Trust, thus ending a family association of 600 years.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2007/06/05/db0501.xml
Other references:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Luttrell_(1705%E2%80%931737)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Fownes_Luttrell_(died_1780)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Fownes-Luttrell
H.C. Maxwell-Lyte (1909). A History of Dunster. London: The St Catherine Press Ltd
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