Edward Rushton

British poet, writer and bookseller

1756 CE to 1814 CE

Edward Rushton (1756–1814) is a British poet, writer and bookseller from Liverpool, England.

He works as a sailor aboard a slave ship as a young man, and becomes an abolitionist as a result.

After losing his own vision, he opens a school for the blind, the oldest continuous such school in the world.

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