Henry Dunster (MP) election of 1679. Dunster died of an epidemic fever at the age of 66 and was buried at All Saints, Hertford. Dunster married Mary Gardiner daughter of Henry Gardiner of Jenningsbury in about May 1655. They had six sons and two daughters. His wife died on 10 October 1718. Henry Dunster (MP) Henry Dunster (1618 – 29 July 1684) was an English merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1660 to 1679. Dunster was the son of Giles Dunster, yeoman, of Seavington St. Michael, Somerset and was baptised on 6 September 1618. He was apprenticed to
Feudal barony of Dunster Milton Abbey, Dorset, and the couple made many extravagant alterations to the Castle, including the addition of the carved wooden staircase and a new dining-room with elaborate plasterwork ceilings. An inventory dated 1690 survives, which lists the sumptuous fittings and furnishings at that date. By his wife Mary Tregonwell he had two daughters, Mary and Frances, and a son and heir Tregonwell Luttrell (1683–1703), of Dunster Castle, who died without children. Tregonwell Luttrell (1683–1703), son, who died without children. Col. Alexander Luttrell (1663–1711), uncle, youngest son of Francis Luttrell (1628–1666) of Dunster Castle. He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford in