Samuel Rutherford

For the American politician, see Samuel Rutherford (Georgia politician). For the American insurance executive, see Samuel Wilson Rutherford.

The Reverend
Samuel Rutherford
Colour portrait painting of Samuel Rutherford
Bornc. 1600
Nisbet, Roxburghshire, Scotland
Died29 March 1661 (aged 60–61)
St. Andrews, Scotland
Alma materUniversity of Edinburgh (MA)
The Signing of the National Covenant. The Victorian painter William Hole places Henderson (standing on the gravestone) at the centre of events in 1638. Archibald Johnston is on the left and Samuel Rutherford is also depicted.[1]
Rutherford's Monument, Anworth[2]
Rutherford's Monument
The inscription stone on Rutherford's Monument
Anwoth Old Kirk and Kirkyard[2]
Memorial plaque to Samuel Rutherford
The grave of Master Samuel Rutherford, St Andrews Cathedral churchyard[3]

Samuel Rutherford (also Rutherfurd or Rutherfoord; c. 1600 – 29 March 1661) was a Scottish Presbyterian pastor and theologian and one of the Scottish Commissioners to the Westminster Assembly.

  1. ^ Fleming 1904.
  2. ^ a b Thomson & Hutchison 1903, p. 408-419.
  3. ^ Thomson & Hutchison 1903.