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First School Founded by a Blind Person
- When
- 1791
- Where
- Liverpool School for the Indigent Blind
The school was the first in the world founded by a blind person, and the oldest in continuous operation, surpassed in age only by the Paris institute.
Only the Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles in Paris is older, but the Liverpool school is the oldest school in the world in continuous operation, and the first in the world founded by a blind person, Edward Rushton, who was also an anti-slavery campaigner. It was also the first school in the world to offer education and training to blind adults as well as children.
Sources
- Royal School for the Blind, Liverpool Wikipedia, revision of 2026-03-29
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