Author: Bright, John Henry
Biography:
BRIGHT, John Henry (1801-73: ancestry.co.uk)
He was baptised on 3 Feb. 1801 at East Stonehouse, Plymouth, Devon, the eldest of seven children of John Henry Bright, a captain in the Royal Marines, and his wife Jean Hewish Coffin, who had married in Cornwall in 1800. He was educated at Tiverton, Devon, and St. John’s College, Cambridge (matric. 1819, BA 1823, MA 1828). He won the Chancellor’s medal for English verse with Palmyra (1822). He entered the church in 1825 and also became a schoolmaster at Falmouth in 1828. From 1840 until his death he was Vicar of Adbaston, Staffs. His only other published works were sermons: Errors in the Church (1851) and The Triumph of the Gospel the Peace of the World (1859), a thanksgiving sermon for the suppression of the Indian Mutiny. He married Katherine Charlotte Munt on 16 Aug. 1831 at Pinner, Harrow, Middlesex. They had four children. She had been born in Madras and was the daughter of Lt. Col. Henry Munt of the 6th Regiment of Native Cavalry, who had died at Nagpore in 1819. She died in 1868. He died at Adbaston on 11 Nov. 1873, leaving an estate of under £2000. (ancestry.co.uk 6 Sept. 2021; CCEd 6 Sept. 2021; Simms, 79; GM Supp. Dec. 1819, 638; Oxford University and City Herald 20 Aug. 1831; Morning Advertiser 12 Feb. 1868; Liverpool Mail 22 Nov. 1873) AA