Friends of Hastings Cemetery

Rev. Charles Henry Lutwidge.was Vicar of East Farleigh in Kent.

In 1851 Caroline and her mother were living at 25 Eversfield Place.  Caroline’s brother was a barrister and several times Mayor of Tunbridge Wells.

He is shown as living with his mother and sister in Tonbridge on the 1871 census.

In 1877 Caroline Louisa died after falling from the window of 28 Warrior Square.

“Miss Caroline Louisa Lutwidge, sister of Captain Fletcher Lutwidge of Tunbridge Wells, has been accidentally killed at Hastings by falling from a third-storey window as she was watching people coming from church.”

Staying with a cousin, James Lowthorpe, and her brother at 28 Warrior Square - six weeks after the death of her Mother, for whom she had been caring for twenty years, she was reported as being cheerful and in good spirits, but had been seeing a doctor because of giddyiness.

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Charles Henry was the son of Major Charles Lutwidge and his wife, Elizabeth Ann Dodgson.  Major Charles Lutwidge, married a cousin, Elizabeth Ann Dodgson, and died in September 1848, too early to be buried in Hastings Cemetery.  Major Charles and Elizabeth had the following children:

Charles Henry Lutwidge
Robert Wilfred Skeffington Lutwidge
Elizabeth FrancesLutwidge
Lucy Lutwidge
Charlotte MenellaLutwidge
Margaret Anne Lutwidge
Henrietta Mary Lutwidge
Frances Jane Lutwidge (married Charles Dodgson)

Obituary for Major Charles Lutwidge - 1848

It is our painful duty to record the death of Charles Lutwidge, Esq. M.A, of St John College Cambridge, for the last few years resident in this town and a gentleman highly esteemed both in public and private life. He was the eldest son of Henry Lutwidge Esq. of Holmrook Hall in the County of Cumberland.

The deceased accompanied his uncle, Admiral Lutwidge to the siege of Toulon in HMS Terrible, 74, and afterwards became an officer in the 1st Royal Lancashire Militia, and served with that regiment in Ireland during the rebellion of 1798.

He was subsequently commanding officer at Dungeness in 1803-4, under Sir John Moore. Shortly afterwards , he became Collector of Her [sic] Majesty's Customs at the port of Hull, which office he held for 35 years and resigned in consequence of ill health, and moved to Hastings; where after a lingering illness, borne with the utmost resignation, this truly Christian gentleman expired at his residence, no 2 Wellington Square on the morning of yesterday at about five o’clock in the 81st year of his age, without a struggle and with a hope full of immortality.

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