Robert Rutherford

(1790-1866)

LBT ID: RoRuthe1866	B/BAP: 1790-02-22 DIED: 1866-06-06
SOURCES: Corson, Notes and Index to Grierson's Letters of Walter Scott; A History of the Society of Writers to Her Majesty's Signet (1890) 177
Son of the physician Daniel Rutherford, and Sir Walter Scott's cousin. He was Writer to the Signet (1815) and Deputy Keeper of the Abbey of Holyrood.
REFERENCES TO Robert Rutherford: Walter Scott to Thomas Scott, 22 December 1819 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ n2 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter X 1819 Found 1: ¶ n2 Chapter IV 1825 Found 1: ¶ 40 Chapter VII 1826 Found 1: ¶ 39 Chapter XI 1832 Found 1: ¶ 35