page_title: Edward Rushworth (colonial administrator)
hierarchical_section_title: Edward Rushworth (colonial administrator)
caption_attribution_description: English: Memorials to Sir George Burrard, 3rd Baronet and Edward Rushworth in St James's Church, Yarmouth, Isle of Wight
context_page_description: Sir Edward Everard Rushworth GCB 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.
context_section_description: 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.
caption: Memorial to Edward Rushworth in St James' Church, Yarmouth, Isle of Wight
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