Edward Rushton (1756–1814) 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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13 November 1756 Liverpool, Lancashire, England, Great Britain
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Died |
22 November 1814 (aged 58)
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Zodiac | Scorpio |
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