Simon Luttrell was another of the more infamous Irish Hellfire Club members.  He was the son of Henry Luttrell.  Henry was a noted commander of the Jacobite forces in the war against William of Orange, though he was granted a pardon after the war.  However, he was said to have been accused by his erstwhile comrades in the Jacobite Army of having betrayed them, and he was later murdered.  After his father was killed, Simon Luttrell served as a Member of Parliament.  He was later appointed to the rank of Baron Irnham of Luttrellstown.

Following the collapse of the Irish Hellfire Club, Simon Luttrell moved to England, where his ruthless and unscrupulous nature saw him rise to become the 1st Earl of Carhampton in 1784.  He is believed to be the anti-hero of the anonymous poem The Diaboliad dedicated to ‘The Worst Man in England’ and published in 1777 (15).  He was also described in a contemporary biography in slightly less than flattering terms:

“in short he was publicly and privately insulted and despised, in so much that it became a common phrase amongst most ranks of people, and remains to this day, that if a man was inclined to confer the greatest mark of rascality and resentment against his adversary, it was enough to call him a Luttrell.  Traitor, villain, bastard, coward and profligate, and everything that can be conceived odious and horrible, were received, couched and understood in that one word…”

(16).