Background
He was born of Quaker parents, on 25 December 1698, and after medical education at the University of Leyden, where he graduated Doctor of Medicine
He was born of Quaker parents, on 25 December 1698, and after medical education at the University of Leyden, where he graduated Doctor of Medicine
He was the author of many texts including A methodical synopsis of the Mineral Waters of Ireland (1757) and An Essay towards the Natural History of the County of Dublin (1772). After his death his spiritual diary was published and the botanist William Henry Harvey named the genus Acanthaceae Ruttya after him. In 1723 and read a thesis ‘De Diarrhœa,’ settled in Dublin as a physician in 1724.
There he practised throughout his life.
He lived simply and often gave his services to the poor. On 6 April 1775 John Wesley records that he ‘visited that venerable man Doctor Rutty.’ Rutty then lived in rented rooms at the eastern corner of Boot Lane and Mary"s Lane in Dublin.
He died on 27 April 1775, and was buried in a Quaker burial-ground on Street Stephen"s Green.