Carruthers
Carruthers is a Scottish surname and clan, originating from the lands of Carruthers in Dumfriesshire.
The place name is derived from the Cumbric for "Rhydderch's fort" possibly in reference to Riderch I of Alt Clut.[1][2]
As of 19 August 2019, Dr Simon Peter Carruthers of Holmains was confirmed as Chief of the Name and Arms of Carruthers by the Lord Lyon King of Arms in Edinburgh, Scotland.[3]
The family and clan are represented internationally by the Clan Carruthers Society International (CCSI); its website is www.clancarrutherssociety.org.[4] The Society was founded in January 2017 and is officially recognised by the Chief of Carruthers as representing the worldwide Carruthers family. It has regional representatives in Australia, Canada, Europe, U.K. and the US. CCSI is non-commercial, apolitical and non-partisan and is open to any member of the international Carruthers family and derivatives of that name. The Society is based in the United Kingdom, but is represented by an international Executive Council made up of senior members from the regions.[5][6]
In Louisiana, Carruthers has evolved into Credeur, a gallicized form of the name;[7] it is a common surname today in the southern part of the state.
Notable people with the surname
- Chris Carruthers (born 1983), English footballer
- David Carruthers (born 1957), British businessman
- David Carruthers, Canadian curler
- Sir David Carruthers, New Zealand judge
- Scatman Crothers, American scat singer
- Douglas Carruthers (1882–1962), soldier, explorer, and naturalist
- Elizabeth Carruthers (born 1951), Canadian diver
- George Carruthers (born 1953), Convenor, Clan Carruthers Society
- George Robert Carruthers (born 1939), American physicist and inventor
- Ian Carruthers, British National Health Service manager
- Jimmy Carruthers (1929–1990), Australian world champion boxer
- John Carruthers (footballer) (1900–1959), English footballer
- John Valentine Carruthers (born 1958), English musician, Siouxsie and the Banshees guitarist from 1984 to 1987
- Joseph Carruthers (1857–1932), Premier of New South Wales 1904 to 1907
- Kitty Carruthers (born 1961), American pairs figure skater
- Mark Carruthers (born 1965), British talk show host on BBC
- Pamela Carruthers (1916–2009), British showjumping course designer
- Peter Carruthers (philosopher) (born 1952), British philosopher
- Peter Carruthers (figure skater) (born 1959), American pairs figure skater
- Peter A. Carruthers (1935–1997), American physicist
- Reid Carruthers (born 1984), Canadian curler
- Robert Carruthers (1799–1878), Scottish journalist and writer
- Robert L. Caruthers (1800–1882), American politician and judge, governor-elect of Tennessee in 1863
- Samir Carruthers (born 1993), Irish footballer
- Steffi Carruthers (born 1993), Samoan tennis player
- Simon Peter Carruthers of Holmains (born 1954), Chief of the Name and Arms of Carruthers
- Wallace Bruce Matthews Carruthers (1863–1910), Canadian soldier and founder of the Canadian Signal Corps
- William Carruthers (1830–1922), British botanist
- Will Carruthers (born 1967), alternative rock musician
- Paul Carruthers (born 1970), British Photographer British Life Photographer of the Year
Fictional characters
- Carruthers, protagonist of Robert Erskine Childers' novel Riddle of the Sands
- Bob Carruthers, a character from the Sherlock Holmes story The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist
- Elizabeth and Peter Carruthers, a married couple; she inherits his trading firm, Carruthers & Co., in the 2016 Discovery Channel/Netflix series Frontier
- Georgie Carruthers, protagonist of Ruby Dixon´novel Ice Planet Barbarians[8]
See also
- Carruthers Field, American military airbase at Benbrook, Texas, near Fort Worth, during World War I
- Clan Carruthers, a Border Reiver Clan and Family originating in the West March of the Anglo-Scottish Borders, Annandale, Dumfriesshire.
References
- Basil Cottle, ed. (1978). The Penguin Dictionary of Surnames (second ed.). Penguin. pp. 84.
- Black, George F. (1946). The Surnames of Scotland. The New York Public Library. pp. 138. ISBN 1-874744-07-6.
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