Edward Rushworth

Who was Edward Rushworth?

Edward Everard Rushworth, GCB, DCL was an eminent British Diplomat in the 19th century.

He was born in Freshwater, Isle of Wight on 23 August 1818 and educated at St John’s College, Oxford, graduating BCL in 1840 and DCL in 1844.

He married Amelia Adelaide de les Derniers at St Paul’s Cathedral, Halifax, NS on 13 January 1855. Later that Year he replaced Hercules Robinson as the Administrator of Montserrat. From 1860 until 1869 he was Government Secretary to the Court of Polity in British New Guinea when he became Colonial Secretary of Jamaica. For a few days in January 1877 he was its acting Governor and died there on 10 August that year from Yellow Fever.