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Husband: | Edward Everard Rushworth (1818-1877) | |
Wife: | Anna Campbell Jarvis (1832-1907) | |
Marriage | 1871 | Bath, Somerset |
Name: | Edward Everard Rushworth | |
Sex: | Male | |
Father: | - | |
Mother: | - | |
Birth | 23 Aug 1818 | Freshwater, Isle of Wight |
Death | 10 Aug 1877 (age 58) | Jamaica |
Name: | Anna Campbell Jarvis | |
Sex: | Female | |
Father: | James Nibbs Jarvis (1794-1842) | |
Mother: | Georgina Colin Lorne Campbell ( -1879) | |
Birth | 1832 | Antigua, West Indies |
Death fact | 1907 (age 74-75) | GRO Reference: 1907 S Quarter in EPSOM Volume 02A Page 20 (aged 75) |
Death | 6 Aug 1907 (age 74-75) | Red House, Ewell, Surrey |
Sir Edward Everard Rushworth GCB (23 August 1818 – 10 August 1877) was a British colonial administrator in the 19th century.
He was born in Freshwater, Isle of Wight in 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 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, 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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Rushworth_(colonial_administrator)
RUSHWORTH Edward Everard Esq. D.C.L., 24 November 1877. The Will of Edward Everard Rushworth late of Government House Kingston in the Island of Jamaica Esquire D.C.L. Lieutenant Governor of the said Island who died 10 August 1877 at the Cottage Halfway Tree near Kingston was proved at the Principal Registry by Anna Campbell Rushworth of 20 Bennet Street in the City of Bath Widow the Relict the sole Executrix. Effects under £3,000 in England.
RUSHWORTH Anna Campbell of the "Red House" Ewell Surrey widow died 6 August 1907. Probate London 13 September to Anna Charles Maitland Makgill Trotter (wife of Henry Yorke Trotter). Effects £4290 8s. 7d. Resworn £4476 1s. 1d.