Emily Rushton

Emily Rushton had a long and distinguished archery career with both the Barnacre and Lonsdale Archers in her native Lancashire. She won a prize at the Grand Northern title at Derby in 1938 at the age of 89, just nine months before she died. When she was 80, Rushton finished 10th in the Grand National Meeting at Oxford. Her daughter Violet was also an excellent archer and fellow member of the Lonsdale Archers, and was the winner of the Grand Northern title at Derby, back in 1906, when her mother carried off the prize for the greatest number of hits at the same meeting.

Rushton spent nearly all her life in North Lancashire and served on the committees of two local District Nursing Associations, at Bolton and Garstang. A devoted church woman, she and her children built the All Saints Church at Barnacre in 1905, in memory of her late husband Thomas who died in 1903. He was the managing director of a firm of textile machinery manufacturers and he bought the extensive Barnacre Estate where they lived, in 1899. Emily was buried at the All Saints Church in 1939.