John Rushton (1798–1868) was Archdeacon of Manchester[1] from 1843 until 1854.
After this he held incumbencies in Newchurch in Pendle, Prestwich and Blackburn.
[3] He married Henrietta, the eldest daughter of William Leaper Newton of Leylands near Derby in 1844.
[5] His son, also called John, won a rowing blue at Cambridge and was himself Vicar of Blackburn from 1877 to 1897.
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