Edward Rushton

(1756-1814)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Rushton, Edward, 1756-1814 DNB: Rushton, Edward (1756–1814), poet and slavery abolitionist LBT ID: EdRusht1814 VIAF ID: 5358949 LOC ID: n85247839	B/BAP: 1756-11-13 DIED: 1814-11-22
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The blind Liverpool poet, bookseller, and abolitionist; he published West Indian Eclogues (1787).
REFERENCES TO Edward Rushton: Henry Roscoe, The Life of William Roscoe 2 vols (London: T. Cadell, 1833) Chapter VI. 1796-1799 Found 1: ¶ 38 Chapter XXI. Found 1: ¶ 47 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)