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William Gordon Rutherford born in Bowland near Wilmington, North Carolina.

Ship: HMS Swiftsure

Rating/Rank: Captain

 
 

Personal details

  
   

Born

19 June 1764

  
   

Died

14 June 1818

  
   

Family

Married Lilias Richardson (died 5 November 1831) in August 1795 at St Margarets, Westminster, London.

 
   

Father

John Rutherford of Bowland near Stow, near Edinburgh

 
   

Mother

Frances Button, widow of Gabriel Johnson, governor of North, Carolina, America

 
   

Notes

William Gordon Rutherford was baptised on 12 August 1765 in Wilmington, North Carolina.

 
   
 

Service details

  
   

HMS Suffolk

2 August 1778 to 20 August 1778
Rank/rating: Landsman

21 August 1778 to 7 December 1778
Rank/rating: Captain's Servant

HMS Monarch

8 December 1778 to 1 June 1779
Rank/rating: Captain's Servant

2 June 1779 to 3 November 1779
Rank/rating: Able Seaman

4 November 1779 to 13 October 1780
Rank/rating: Midshipman

HMS Artois

14 October 1780 to 11 November 1780
Rank/rating: Able Seaman

HMS Iphigenia

12 November 1780 to 13 March 1781
Rank/rating: Able Seaman

14 March 1781 to 24 December 1781
Rank/rating: Midshipman

HMS Leocadia

25 December 1781 to 26 February 1782
Rank/rating: Midshipman

HMS Britannia

27 February 1782 to 6 April 1782
Rank/rating: Midshipman

HMS Blenheim

1 May 1782 to 1 March 1783
Rank/rating: Midshipman

HMS Edgar

3 August 1785 to 20 September 1785
Rank/rating: Able Seaman

HMS Cambridge

13 August 1790 to 5 January 1791
Rank/rating: Midshipman

29 March 1791 to 3 September 1791
Rank/rating: Midshipman

HMS Saint George

4 September 1791 to 5 February 1792
Rank/rating: Able Seaman

HMS Cambridge

1 September 1793 to 29 September 1793
Rank/rating: Midshipman

HMS Boyne

November 1793 to July 1794
Rank/rating: Acting Lieutenant

HMS Nautilus

July 1794 to June 1795
Rank/rating: Commander

HMS Adventure

November 1795 to September 1796
Rank/rating: Commander

HMS Dictator

September 1796 to November 1796
Rank/rating: Captain

HMS Brunswick

November 1796 to May 1799
Rank/rating: Captain

HMS Decade

HMS Swiftsure

Ship's pay book number: (SB 20)
15 May 1805 to November 1807
Rank/rating: Captain
  
   
 

Sources used

  
   

Catalogue reference: ADM 36/16549

Catalogue reference: ADM 9/2

Catalogue reference: ADM 107/17

Catalogue reference: PROB 11/1608

  
 

Last updated: 11 October 2004

  
 

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