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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 686 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TEVIOT, See also:ANDREW See also:RUTHERFORD, See also:EARL OF (d. 1664) , was the son of See also:William Rutherford of Quarrelholes, See also:Roxburghshire. His See also:education was received in See also:Edinburgh, and he took up the career of soldier of See also:fortune. His services were given to the See also:French See also:government, which maintained regiments of Scottish mercenaries. On the restoration of See also:Charles II., Rutherford was taken into employment by his own See also:king on the recommendation of See also:Louis XIV. of See also:France. He had held a See also:commission as See also:lieutenant-See also:general in France and had a high reputation for See also:personal courage. Charles II. gave him the Scottish See also:title of See also:Lord Rutherford and the governorship of See also:Dunkirk, which had been acquired by the See also:Protector See also:Oliver See also:Cromwell. When Charles II. sold the See also:town to France in 1662 Rutherford was consoled by the command of the 2nd or See also:Tangier See also:regiment, was made earl of Teviot in the See also:peerage of See also:Scotland, and was sent in 1663 as See also:governor to Tangier. His See also:tenure of See also:office was very See also:short, for on the 4th of May 1664 he allowed himself to be en-trapped into an See also:ambush by the See also:Moors, who carried on incessant irregular warfare against the See also:English See also:garrison, and was killed, together with nineteen See also:officers and nearly five See also:hundred men of his garrison. See W. F. Lord, The Lost Possessions of See also:England (See also:London, 1896).

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