Author: RUSHER, Philip
Biography:
RUSHER, Philip (1765 -1832: ancestry.co.uk)
He was baptised on 19 May 1765, one of at least ten children of John Rusher (c. 1725-95), a yeoman farmer, and his wife Jane Harris (1725-87), who had married at St. Mary Magdalen, Oxford, in 1749. Nothing is known of his education but his death notice stated that he had worked for 46 years as a bank clerk. He married Sarah Emmetts (1770-1843) on 30 Oct. 1791 at St. Mary’s, Reading. They went on to have at least five children. He was buried on 10 July 1832 at St. Mary’s, Banbury, with his residence given as Red Lion Street. Crouch-Hill (1789) was first attributed to him by the local historian Alfred Beesley. The work was printed by his older brother, William Rusher (1759-1849), sometime schoolmaster of Banbury Bluecoat school, hatter, bookseller and stationer, and publisher of Banbury Lists and Directories, whose sons were beneficiaries, executors and managers of Philip Rusher’s estate for the benefit of his widow Sarah and sole surviving child, Emma. The attribution was later confirmed by William Rusher’s daughter, also Sarah, who had married into the Beesley family. (ancestry.co.uk 21 Oct. 2022; OUCH 7 July 1832; OJ 4 July 1789, 4 Mar. 1843; Alfred Beesley, The History of Banbury [1841], 149, 566; Sarah Beesley, My Life [1892], 7; P. Renold, “William Rusher: a sketch of his life,” Banbury Historical Society 11:9 [1991], 218-28) AA