William G. (William Gunion) Rutherford

Born in Peeblesshire in 1853, William Gunion Rutherford was educated at St Andrews and Balliol College, Oxford. He originally planned to enter medicine, but turned instead to teaching and scholarship, becoming one of the best-known classical scholars of his day.

From 1883 to 1901 he served as Head Master of Westminster School. Alongside school leadership, he wrote important works on Greek, including New Phrynichus and First Greek Grammar, and he was especially noted for his command of Attic Greek and Aristophanes.

Rutherford died in 1907. He is also remembered for The Five Pauline Epistles, A New Translation, showing the range of his interests beyond the classroom and into biblical translation.