Henry A. Bright

Henry Arthur Bright (February 9, 1830, Liverpool - May 5, 1884, Knottie Ash) was an English merchant and writer. Bright was born in Liverpool on February 9, 1830, the oldest son of Samuel Bright, J.P. (1799-1870; younger brother of Henry Bright, MP and pathologist Richard Bright), with Elizabeth Ann, eldest daughter of Hugh Jones, a banker from Liverpool. The family tree dates back to Nathaniel Bright of Worcester (1493-1564), whose grandson Henry Bright (1562-1627), a school teacher and canon in Worcester, acquired Brockbury’s estate in Colwall County, Herefordshire, which still remained in the family. Henry Arthur Bright, who on his mother’s side was associated with Richard Moncton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton, was educated at the rugby school at Archibald Tate and at Trinity College in Cambridge, where he was qualified, but as a nonconformist, he could not do a subscription is then required as an end condition. When this restriction was lifted, Bright and his relative James Heywood were the first nonconformists to receive B.A. Cambridge degrees. (1857) and M.A. (1860).