A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Lutwidge, Henry Thomas
LUTWIDGE. (Retired Commander, 1845. f-p., 22; h-p., 31.)
Henry Thomas Lutwidgeis third son of the late Henry Lutwidge, Esq., of Holm Rook, co. Cumberland, by Jane, daughter of Rigby Molineux, Esq., of Preston; and nephew of Admiral Skeffington Lutwidge, who commanded the Terrible at the occupation of Toulon in 1793, and had his flag on board the same ship at the reduction of Corsica in 1794. His grandfather, Thos. Lutwidge, Esq., an officer in King William’s army, and High-Sheriif for Cumberland in the 12th of George I., married Lucy, daughter of Sir Chas. Hoghton, Bart., of Hoghton Tower, by his wife. Lady Mary Skeffington, eldest daughter of Viscount Massereene. The Commander’s eldest surviving brother, the present Skeffington Lutwidge, Esq., of Holm Rook, is a Magistrate and Deputy-Lieutenant for Cumberland.
This officer entered the Navy, in June, 1794, as Captain’s Servant, on board the Terrible 74, bearing the flag in the Mediterranean of his uncle, Rear-Admiral Lutwidge. Becoming Midshipman, in March, 1795, of the Barfleur 98, Capt. Jas. Rich. Dacres, he served under that officer in the actions fought, 23 June, 1795, and 14 Feb. 1797, off Ile de Groix and Cape St. Vincent; after which, joining the Endymion 40, Capt. Sir Thos. Williams, he co-operated with the King’s troops in an attack made in June, 1798, upon the town of Wexford, where were destroyed 100 large boats and vessels, which the rebels had collected for their escape. He continued in the Endymion, cruizing intermediately with much activity, until July, 1800; and on 6 of the following Sept., being at the time on board the Royal William, flag-ship of Admiral Milbanke at Spithead, he was made Lieutenant into the Prevoyante store-ship, Capt. John Seater. His next appointments were, in the following Oct., and in May, 1801, and July, 1802, to the Lapwing, Resistance, and Hussar frigates, Capts. Edw. Rotheram, Henry Digby, and Philip Wilkinson, all on the Home station; where, in the early part of 1804, he was wrecked, off the coast of France. He was in consequence detained a prisoner of war until May, 1814; on 4 Aug. in which year he joined the Tiber 38, Capt. Jas. Rich. Dacres. He left that frigate, after having served on the Irish and Lisbon stations, in Oct. 1814, and was lastly, from 2 Aug. 1821 until 31 Aug. 1822, employed in the Water Guard. He became a Retired Commander on the Junior List 26 Nov. 1830, and on the Senior 27 March, 1845.
Commander Lutwidge married Mary, daughter of Taylor, Esq., of Osbaston Hall, co. Leicester.