Edward Pulsford

Edward Pulsford was an Englishborn Australian politician and freetrade campaigner.

Edward Pulsford was born at Burslem in Staffordshire onSeptember 1844. His mother was Mary Ann, ne Cutler, and his father, James Eustace Pulsford, was a Baptist minister and businessman. He received a private education and worked with his father as a commission agent together they worked in Hull, Yorkshire, from 1870 to 1884. OnFebruary 1870, he married Mary Charlotte Stainforth at Hull she would predecease him. In 1883 Edward embarked for New South Wales, while his father travelled to New York to become resident secretary of the Liverpool, London amp Globe Insurance Company. After his arrival in Sydney, Pulsford immediately became involved in the free trade cause, and in 1885 he cofounded the Free Trade and Liberal Association of New South Wales with Bernhard Wise. His campaigning on behalf of free trade led to his becoming an honorary member of the Cobden Club.

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