Originally Posted by Bob Edwards Edward Rushton (1756–1814) Edward Rushton was born in Liverpool, on 13 November 1756. He was enrolled at the Liverpool Free School from the age of 6 until the age of 9. He left school and at the age of 11 he became an apprentice with Messrs. Watt and Gregson, a firm that traded in the West Indies. Rushton quickly became an experienced sailor. At the ...