SUTHERLAND, RICHARD? [SSNE 456]

Surname

SUTHERLAND

First name

RICHARD?

Title/rank

CAPTAIN

Nationality

SCOT

Social status

OFFICER

Text source

Richard Sutherland was in Danish-Norwegian service, where he held the rank of lieutenant in colonel Donald Mackay's [SSNE 93] regiment. As many of the Scottish officers did, he then entered Swedish service and was later promoted captain in Patrick Ruthven's [SSNE 3413]regiment

T. Riis, Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot (Odense, 1988), II, p.124; J. Mackay, 'Mackay's Regiment' in Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness, VIII, 1879, p. 188).

Service record

DENMARK-NORWAY, MACKAY'S REGIMENT

Arrived 1628-01-01, as LIEUTENANT

Departed 1628-10-04, as LIEUTENANT

Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY

SWEDEN, PATRICK RUTHVEN

Arrived 1630-01-01, as CAPTAIN

Departed 1632-12-31, as CAPTAIN

Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY