Feudal barony of Dunster and MP for Minehead 1816–22. He died childless. George Fownes Luttrell (1826–1910), nephew, JP, DL, Sheriff of Somerset in 1874. He was the eldest son of Lt-Col Francis Fownes Luttrell (1792–1862) of Kilve Court and Wootton House, Wootton Fitzpaine, Dorset (3rd son of John Fownes Luttrell (1752–1816) of Dunster Castle), Lt-Col of the Grenadier Guards who fought and was wounded at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 and was Lt-Col of the Somerset Militia in 1839. Francis's portrait in the library of Dunster Castle shows him in military uniform with his right eye missing, a battle wound. George's mother was
Feudal barony of Dunster War he made Dunster Castle available for use as a convalescent home by the Royal Navy. On the death of his father in 1944 the payment of a large sum in Death Duties left the estate indebted and uneconomic to operate, and Geoffrey, whilst reserving a tenancy for himself at the Castle, sold the estates to a property development company which sold them on to the Commissioners of Crown Lands. He bought back the Castle and grounds in 1954 and opened them to the paying public. He died in 1957 and his widow remained at the Castle until her death