Edward Rushton, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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British poet, writer, and bookseller
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About Edward Rushton
- 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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