title: Lord Ruthven
text: # Lord Ruthven
  
  Lord Ruthven may refer to:
  
  ## People
  
  ### Lord Ruthven
  
  * Lord Ruthven, a title in the peerage of Scotland from 1488, used until 1581 on the creation of Earl of Gowrie
     * William Ruthven, 1st Lord Ruthven (d. 1528)
     * William Ruthven, 2nd Lord Ruthven (d. 1552)
     * Patrick Ruthven, 3rd Lord Ruthven (c. 1520–1566)
     * William Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie, 4th Lord Ruthven, (d. 1584), created Earl of Gowrie in 1581
  
  ### Lord Ruthven of Freeland and Baron Ruthven of Gowrie
  
  * Lord Ruthven of Freeland, a title in the peerage of Scotland since 1651
     * Thomas Ruthven, 1st Lord Ruthven of Freeland (died 1671), Scottish nobleman
     * David Ruthven, 2nd Lord Ruthven of Freeland (died 1701), Lord High Treasurer of Scotland
     * James Ruthven, 7th Lord Ruthven of Freeland (1777–1853)
     * Walter Hore-Ruthven, 9th Lord Ruthven of Freeland (1838–1921), created Baron Ruthven of Gowrie in 1919
     * Walter Hore-Ruthven, 10th Lord Ruthven of Freeland, 2nd Baron Ruthven of Gowrie (1870–1956), British Major-General
     * Charles Howard, 12th Earl of Carlisle, 12th Lord Ruthven of Freeland (1923–1994)
     * George Howard, 13th Earl of Carlisle, 13th Lord Ruthven of Freeland (born 1949)
  
  ### Lord Ruthven of Ettrick
  
  * Patrick Ruthven, 1st Earl of Forth (c. 1573–1651)
  
  ### Viscount Ruthven of Canberra
  
  * Alexander Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie, also created Viscount Ruthven of Canberra in 1944
  * Viscount Ruthven of Canberra, now a courtesy title of the heir apparent of the Earl of Gowrie
     * Grey Ruthven, 2nd Earl of Gowrie (born 1939), known as Lord Ruthven until 1955
        * Brer Ruthven, Viscount Ruthven of Canberra (b. 1964), his son
  
  ## Fictional characters
  
  * Lord Ruthven (vampire), a fictional character
  * Lord de Ruthven, a fictional character in the 1816 Gothic novel Glenarvon, by Lady Caroline Lamb
  