James Rutherford (?-?) aka "residenter of Utrecht"/Notes

Chamber and Thomson, 1856
From Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen]] originally edited by Robert Chambers and then the new edition along with the supplemental volume says by the Rev. Thos. Thomson. It was published by Blackie and Son of Glasgow, Edinburgh, and London in 1856. The article on Rev. Samuel Rutherford (aka "the Divine") contains the following reference to James Rutherford of Utrecht,,


 * ...and on the 20th of May, 1651, he was elected to fill the divinity chair in the university of Utrecht. This appointment was immediately transmitted to him by his brother, Mr James Rutherford, then an officer in the Dutch service, who, by the way fell into the power of an English cruiser, and was stripped of everything, and confined a prisoner in Leith, till he was, through the intervention of the States, set at Liberty. As he had, in consequence of this disaster, nothing but a verbal invitation to offer, Rutherford refused to accept it. James Rutherford returned directly to Holland, and the magistrates of Utrecht, still hoping to succeed, sent him back with a formal invitation in the end of the same year. Rutherford seems now to have been in some degree of hesitation, and requested six months to advise upon the subject. At the end of this period, he wrote to the patrons of the college, thanking them for the high honour they had done him, but informing them, that he could not think of abandoning his own church in the perilous circumstances in which it then stood