Edward Rushton

Writer, Author

1756 – 1814

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Who was Edward Rushton?

Edward Rushton was a British poet, writer, and bookseller from Liverpool, England. He worked as a sailor aboard a slave ship as a young man, and became an abolitionist as a result. After losing his own vision, he opened a school for the blind, the oldest continuous such school in the world.

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Born
1756
Liverpool
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Died
Nov 22, 1814

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on July 23, 2013

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