The daughter of Sir John Swinton of Swinton; in 1731 she married Professor John Rutherford, who remarried in 1743. She was the maternal grandmother of Sir Walter Scott.

REFERENCES TO Jean Rutherford [née Swinton]:

Sir Walter Scott to Joanna Baillie, 10 February 1822 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837)