Tour Scotland travel video, with Scottish music, of the Reverend Samuel Rutherford Monument, a granite obelisk set amongst the Boreland Hills on visit to Dumfries and Galloway. Samuel Rutherford was born around 1600 in the parish of Nisbet, now part of Crailing, Roxburghshire, in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland. Nothing certain is known as to his parentage, but he belonged to the Hunthill family, from whom Sir Walter Scott was descended, and his father is believed to have been a farmer or miller. A brother was school aster of Kirkcudbright, and Reader there, and another brother was an officer in the Dutch service. Rutherford was educated at Jedburgh Grammar School and the University of Edinburgh. After graduating with an M.A. in 1621, he was appointed regent of Humanity at Edinburgh in 1623. He demitted that office in 1626, because of immoral conduct with Euphame Hamilton, who afterwards became his wife. He was admitted to Anwoth Kirkcudbrightshire, Galloway in 1627, probably without Episcopal sanction. It was said of him there that " he was always praying, always preaching, always visiting the sick, always catechising, always writing and studying" His patron in Galloway was John Gordon, 1st Viscount of Kenmure.
Rutherford was appointed to Principalship at the university of St Andrews, Fife, in 1647. He was offered in 1648 a Divinity Professorship at Harderwyck in Holland, in 1649 the Chair at Edinburgh, and in 1651 he was twice elected to a Professorship at Utrecht, but all these he declined. In 1643, 1644, 1650, and 1651 he was elected rector of the University, and in 1650 on King Charles II.'s visit to St Andrews, he made a Latin speech to him on the duty of Kings. Rutherford was a staunch Protester during the controversy in the Scottish Presbyterian church between the Resolutioners and Protesters in the 1650s. After the Restoration he was one of the first marked out for persecution: his work Lex Rex was ordered by the Committee of Estates to be burnt at the Crosses of Edinburgh and St Andrews by the hand of the common hangman, while the "Drunken Parliament" deprived him of all his offices and voted that he not be permitted to die in the college. He was cited to appear before Parliament on a charge of treason, but he died 29 March 1661, the date, 20th, on his tombstone is an error. He is buried in the churchyard of St Andrews Cathedral just west of the bell tower. The epitaph on his tombstone includes " Acquainted with Emmanuel's Love. "
The surname Rutherford was first found in the Parish of Maxton, town of Rutherford, county Roxburghshire. The first bearers of Rutherford on record were two knights: Gregory and Nicholas de Rutherford. Spelling variations of this family name include: Rutherford, Rutterford, Rudderford, Rudford and others.
James Rutherford, a Scottish convict was convicted in Edinburgh, Scotland for 7 years, then transported aboard the Blenheim on 24th July 1850, arriving in Tasmania and Norfolk Island, Australia; William Rutherford, aged 25, a wheelwright, arrived in Quebec, Canada, aboard the ship Dorothy in 1815; Richard Rutherford arrived in Virginia, America, in 1636; Henry Rutherford arrived in Connecticut, America, in 1641; Dennis Rutherford settled in Pennsylvania, America, in 1682.
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