Earls of Teviot (1633)
1st Earl of Teviot, Andrew Rutherford, b.?, a.1633, d.1664
Son of William Rutherford of Quarrelholes in Roxburghshire, he took up a
career as a soldier of fortune and served in the French Army, which at the time
maintained a regiment of Scottish mercenaries. At the restoration he was
brought back to Britain by Charles II and given the title of 1st Lord
Rutherford and made Governor of Dunkirk. In 1662, Charles sold Dunkirk back to
the French and Rutherford was raised to the peerage as 1st Earl of
Teviot and given command of the colony of Tangiers. A year after arriving he
was killed in an ambush by Moors.
(Last updated: 18/05/2011)