According to A. Asbjorn Jon ' the choice of name Polidori's Lord Ruthven is presumably linked to Lady Caroline Lamb's earlier novel Glenarvon, where it was used for a rather ill disguised Byronesque character '

Two World Wars provided Preston with two awardees of the Victoria Cross-the Empire's highest military award for valour ; Bruce Kingsbury and William Ruthven, both of whom lent their name to future localities.

The name of the work's protagonist, " Lord Ruthven ", added to this assumption, for that name was originally used in Lady Caroline Lamb's novel Glenarvon ( from the same publisher ), in which a thinly-disguised Byron figure was also named Lord Ruthven.

A Lord Ruthven also appeared in the Swedish novel Vampyren ( 1848 ), the first published work by author and poet Viktor Rydberg ; as the story unfolds, it becomes clear that he is inspired by him in name only.

Lord Ruthven is used as a character in the background of the Vampire: The Masquerade game system, under the name Lambach Ruthven as a Tzimisce Methuselah.

This time, the king was less merciful: as well as seizing the estates, he abolished the name of Ruthven and decreed that any successors would be ineligible to hold titles or lands.

The earl's sons were slain in the attempt ( known as the Gowrie conspiracy ) to capture James VI ( 1600 ), consequent on which the Scots parliament ordered the name of Ruthven to be abolished, and the barony to be known in future as Huntingtower.

The name Ruthven comes from the lands north of Loch Rannoch in Perthshire.

The local pronunciation of the name of the island approximates with the Scottish pronunciation of " Ruthven " (" Rivven ").

Following the Gowrie conspiracy the Ruthven name was decreed out of existence.

* Isobel ( d. 1732 ), wife of James Johnson, who took the name of Ruthven on succeeding to the family estates ; and their son:

" I once was as meek " ( Sir Ruthven and Adam )

Harold James Ruthven Murray ( 24 June 1868 – 16 May 1955 ), was an English educationalist, inspector of schools, and prominent chess historian.

The technique was invented by Grant Henry Lathe and Colin R Ruthven, working at Queen Charlotte ’ s Hospital, London.

That year the first store in west Donna was established by Ed Ruthven, and the community was recognized as the Texas station that shipped the most produce in a year.

A Swedish-allied army under general Johan Baner decisively defeated a combined Imperial-Saxon army, led by Count Melchior von Hatzfeld and the Saxon Elector John George I. Baner was helped by Swedish Count Lennart Torstenson and Scottish professional soldiers Alexander Leslie, later first Earl of Leven, James King, later first Lord Eythin, and John Ruthven.

First published in October 1992, Anno Dracula has won the Dracula Society's Children of the Night Award, the Lord Ruthven Assembly's Fiction Award, and the International Horror Guild Award for Best Novel, and was short-listed for the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel.

Macpherson was born at Ruthven in the parish of Kingussie, Badenoch, Inverness-shire.

One last Scottish attempt against the king's person occurred in August 1600, when James was apparently assaulted by Alexander Ruthven, the Earl of Gowrie's younger brother, at Gowrie House, the seat of the Ruthvens.

Since Ruthven was run through by James's page John Ramsay and the Earl of Gowrie was himself killed in the ensuing fracas, there were few surviving witnesses.

Van Dyck became a " denizen ", effectively a citizen, in 1638 and married Mary, the daughter of Patrick Ruthven, who, although the title was forfeited, styled himself Lord Ruthven.

As a technique, SEC was first developed in 1955 by Lathe and Ruthven.

His father, Leslie Pym, was also a Member of Parliament, while his grandfather, the Right Reverend Walter Ruthven Pym, was Bishop of Bombay.

He was the only son of John Graham, 4th Earl of Montrose and Lady Margaret Ruthven.

The ruins of the early 18th century Ruthven Barracks ( Historic Scotland ; open to visitors at all times ) lie near the original site of the village which was moved to avoid the flood plain of the River Spey.

A woman's voice calling a call-centre, where the main character was working, was shown to be making the phonecall from ' 4 Ruthven Road, Kingussie '.

It was created in 1651 for Thomas Ruthven.

He was the grandson of Alexander Ruthven, younger son of William Ruthven, 2nd Lord Ruthven ( see the Earl of Gowrie, 1581 creation, for earlier history of the family ).

* Ruthven Castle, also known as Huntingtower Castle, north of Perth

In 1580 the abbey estates were granted to Lord Ruthven, later the Earl of Gowrie, who held estates around what is now called Huntingtower Castle.

Huntingtower Castle once known as Ruthven Castle or the Place of Ruthven is located near the village of Huntingtower beside the A85 and near the A9, about 5km NW of the centre of Perth, Perth and Kinross, in central Scotland, on the main road to Crieff.

Huntingtower Castle was built in stages from the 15th century by the Clan Ruthven family and was known for several hundred years as the ' House ( or ' Place ') of Ruthven '.

Thus the House of Ruthven ceased to exist and by royal proclamation the castle was renamed Huntingtower.

Huntingtower ( originally Ruthven ) Castle, a once formidable structure, was the scene of the Raid of Ruthven ( pron.

Ruthven wrote to William Cecil from Huntingtower Castle reminding him of their previous meetings in England during the time of Edward VI, and approving of Cecil's, " forth-setting of the union of these realms in greater amity than in times bypast has been.

In 1582 he devised the plot to seize James VI of Scotland, known as the Raid of Ruthven, when the king visited his home at Huntingtower Castle.

Ruthven Castle now called Huntingtower Castle | Huntingtower

Another prominent politician, the recently ennobled James Stewart, Earl of Arran, was imprisoned at Dupplin, Stirling, Ruthven ( Huntingtower ), then confined at his own Kinneil House.

The so-called Gowrie conspiracy of 1600, in which the young Earl of Gowrie, John Ruthven, and his brother Alexander Ruthven were killed by James's attendants for a supposed assault on the King, triggered the dismissal of their sisters Beatrix and Barbara Ruthven as ladies-in-waiting to Anne, with whom they were " in chiefest credit.

Two years later in 1586, the attainder was reversed and his son, the second Earl, was restored as Earl of Gowrie and Lord Ruthven, but both peerages were forfeited after the alleged plot and subsequent death of the second Earl's younger brother, the third Earl, in 1600.

Alexander Ruthven, third son of the first Earl of the first creation, took part in the Gowrie conspiracy of 1600, was condemned for treason and hung, drawn and quartered.

* John Ruthven, 3rd Earl of Gowrie ( 1576 – 1600 )

John Ruthven, 3rd Earl of Gowrie ( c. 1577 – 5 August 1600 ) was a Scottish nobleman, the second son of William Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie and his wife Dorothea Stewart.

However in 1600, the brothers John and Alexander Ruthven were implicated in another plot to kill King James VI and were executed.

His son John Ruthven, Earl of Gowrie ( 1577 ?– 1600 ), continued the family tradition of intrigue by offering to serve Queen Elizabeth I, then leading the opposition to James VI.