The son of the Rev. Thomas Rutherford; he married Eliza Ann Fenwick (daughter of the novelist) in Barbados and left her to pursue an acting career in Britain; he died a suicide.

REFERENCES TO William Rutherford:

William Godwin to Mary Jane Godwin, 18 September 1817 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876)

Charles Lamb to Sir John Stoddart, [9 August 1827] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)