Nationality Scottish Children 3 daughters
2 sons Name John Ruthven | Spouse(s) Mary West Engineering discipline Mechanical engineering | |
Born 20 May 1783 Edinburgh | ||
John Ruthven (born 20 May 1783 in Edinburgh) was a Scottish engineer. He married Mary West and they had five children, two of whom also became engineers. John Ruthven has a Scotch patent, obtained jointly with his son Morris West Ruthven.
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Family
John Ruthven married Mary West in Edinburgh on 30 September 1806. They had five children:
Births of the first four children have been verified at Scotland's People. The birth of John Folds Ruthven is shown on the Beath-Tait website but it has not been possible to verify it from official records.
In the 1830s he is listed as an engine manufacturer at 23 New Street in Edinburgh's Old Town.
Morris West Ruthven
Morris West Ruthven has a Scotch patent dated 28 March 1839 "for improvements in boilers for generating steam..." This was obtained jointly with John Ruthven.
Career
John Folds Ruthven was Locomotive Superintendent of the Great North of Scotland Railway from 1855 to 1857. Little is known of his later career but John F. Ruthven (civil engineer, born in Scotland) is shown in the 1861 English census living in Edgbaston, Birmingham with wife Jane and four children.
Family
John Folds Ruthven married Jane Cleghorn Cameron in Edinburgh on 14 December 1849 and they had children: