John Gordon, 1st Viscount of Kenmure was a Scottish nobleman, renowned Presbyterian, and founder of the town of New Galloway.
Kenmure Castle
Engraving of a view of New Galloway by James Fittler in Scotia Depicta, published 1804
Kenmure Castle and Kenmure Holms, Kells, Kirkcudbrightshire
Samuel Rutherford
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Samuel Rutherford was a Scottish Presbyterian minister and theologian and one of the Scottish Commissioners to the Westminster Assembly.
John Gordon, 1st Viscount of Kenmure
…Anwoth — the parish in which the family residence was situated — disjoined from two other parishes with which it had been united; and through him, Samuel Rutherford was appointed minister of the new charge in 1627, which Kenmure later said was "the most meritorious action of my life". At some point Gordon was…
Samuel Rutherford St. Andrews
The Signing of the National Covenant. The Victorian painter William Hole places Henderson (standing on the gravestone) at the centre of events in 1638. Archibald Johnston is on the left and Samuel Rutherford is also depicted.
Rutherford's Monument, Anwoth
Rutherford's Monument