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1. Malignant Ophthalmia causes the eyelids to become red and swollen, and from between them issues a dangerous discharge which causes the lids to stick together and imprisons the malignant fluid. This, in the course of a few days, works irreparable damage to the eyes.
2. When William Cobbett, the famous antagonist of Paine, returned to England from America in 1819, he arrived in Liverpool bringing with him Paine's bones which had been disinterred from the grave on the dead man's farm. He also brought back a fragment of the gravestone which had been destroyed by his enemies. Cobbett gave this fragment to Edward Rushton Jnr. who had become an intimate acquaintance. The extent of the inscription read (brackets indicate what was missing from the fragment):
THOM(as)
AUTHOR OF COMMON (sense)
DIED JUNE 8TH (1809)
AGED 74 YEARS
A full account of this can be found in W. L. Rushton, Letters of a Templar 1820-50, London (1903), pp.60-2. the letters belonged to his father Edward Rushton jnr.)
3. Shepherd later wrote Rushtons' biography included in Edward Rushton, Poems and Other Writings London.1824.
4. This may be the Liverpool and Lancaster Weekly Herald, first published in June 1788, becoming the Liverpool and Lancashire Weekly Herald in November 1789. No trace of the 'Liverpool Herald' can be found (as stated by Shepherd, op. cit.).
5. E. Rushton, Will Clewline, London (1806).
6. His son Edward, born on 22 September 1795, became a prominent figure in Liverpool politics, was called to the Bar on 18 November 1831 and appointed Stipendary Magistrate of Liverpool on 17 May 1839.
7. B. Whittingham-Jones, ‘Liverpool Political Clubs 1812-1830’ , T.H.L.S.L.C. Vol 111, (1959) p.134.
8. Taken from a lengthy account written in 1804 by Rushton at his home in Paradise St. It was later sent by his son Edward jnr. to the Liverpool Mercury for publication to settle a dispute regarding the founding of the school. It was printed in full in the newspaper on 31 October 1817.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid. (Lowe was a Professor of Music of 44 Duke Street.)
15. Ibid.
16. Ibid.
17. Ibid.
18. Owners of local newspapers.
19. Rushton(1804 & 1817)op.cit
20. Ibid.
21. Ibid.
22. Ibid.
23. Ibid.
24. Ibid.
25. Management Committee Minute Book (1793-1803) Archive of the Royal School for the Blind, Liverpool, Vol 1, p. 1.
26. Rushton (1804 & 1817 ), Op. cit.
27. MCMB op.cit Vol2 (1804-1815) - 4 October 1805.
28. A notable exception being J.A. Picton, Memorials of Liverpool, (1875) Vol II, pp. 191-4
29. H. Smithers, Liverpool - its Commerce, Statistics & Institutions, London (1825), pp.239-40.
30. Wallace, James, A History of the Ancient and Present State of Liverpool (1795) pp.166-7.
31. Rushton, W.L., Letters,p.2-3.
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