Robert Rutherfurd
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Sir Robert Rutherfurd (31 May 1719 – 13 February 1794) was a Scottish merchant who was made a Baron of the Russian Empire.
Rutherfurd was born on 31 May 1719. He was the fourth son of Sir John Rutherfurd of Rutherfurd and Edgerston, and his first wife, Elizabeth Cairncross, who married in 1710.[1] His father was the head of an old Roxburgh family.[2] Among his eighteen siblings were John Rutherfurd, MP for Roxburghshire, and Walter Rutherfurd, who moved to America and became a prominent merchant.[3]
His paternal grandparents were Thomas Rutherfurd of Teviotdale and Susannah (née Riddell) Rutherfurd,[1] and he was eleventh in descent from James Rutherfurd of Clan Rutherford, who was granted the manorial lands of Edgerston in 1492 by King James IV of Scotland.[4] His maternal grandfather was William Cairncross of West Langlee, Roxburghshire.[2]