Edward Rushworth (colonial administrator)
British colonial administrator
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Sir Edward Everard Rushworth GCB (23 August 1818 – 10 August 1877) was a British colonial administrator in the 19th century.[1]
He was born in Freshwater, Isle of Wight in 1818 and educated at St John's College, Oxford, graduating BCL in 1840 [2] and DCL in 1844.[3]
He married Amelia Adelaide de les Derniers at St Paul's Cathedral in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on 13 January 1855.[4] Later that Year he replaced Hercules Robinson as the Administrator of Montserrat. From 1860[5] until 1869 he was Government Secretary to the Court of Polity in British Guiana when he became Colonial Secretary of Jamaica.[6] For a few days in January 1877 he was its acting Governor and died there on 10 August that year [7] from Yellow Fever.[8]
