Rutherfurd, John

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Dates 1734-42
Location London
Vocation Army officer and politician
Place of Birth Edgerston, Roxburghshire
Marriage Eleanor Elliot
Issue 3 sons, 4 daughters
Place of birth Source History of Parliament Online

Elected MP for Roxburghshire. Member of the Squadrone and anti-Argyll faction. Re-elected 1741 though vacated seat the following year through the grant of an army commission. Joined his company in America and settled in Albany. Joined New York council. Died 1758.