BRIGHT, Jacob (youngest son of Jacob Bright). Learnt handloom weaving at New Mills Derbyshire 1790–6; bookkeeper to J. and W. Holme of Rochdale, partner with them; cotton spinner at Hanging road factory Rochdale, at Greenbank mill Cronkeyshaw 1809, had 7000 spindles at work 1823; retired from business 1839. d. 7 July 1851 aged 76. Fortunes made in business ii, 181–97 (1884).
BRIGHT, John. b. Derbyshire 1782; ed. at Wad. coll. Ox., B.A. 1801, M.A. 1804, M.B. 1806, M.D. 1808; practised at Birmingham; removed to London; candidate of R.C.P. 30 Sep. 1808, Fellow 30 Sep. 1809, Censor 1813, 1822, 1833 and 1840, Harveian orator 1830, Consiliarius 1839, an Elect 25 June 1839; Physician to Westminster hospital 1822–43; a Metropolitan Commissioner in Lunacy 1 Sep. 1836. d. 19 Manchester sq. London 1 Feb. 1870. Munk’s Roll of physicians iii, 79 (1878).
BRIGHT, Rev. Mynors (son of John Bright, physician 1783–1870). b. 1818; ed. at Shrewsbury; entered Magd. coll. Cam. 3 July 1835, B.A. 1840, M.A. 1843, Tyrwhitt Hebrew scholar 1843, foundation fellow, and tutor of his college, president 1853 to 1873; proctor of Univ. of Cam. 1853; re-edited Lord Braybrook’s edition of Pepys’s Diary published simultaneously in 4º. and 8º. 6 vols. 1879 for which he redeciphered the whole of Pepys’s Diary from the original M.S. in Magd. coll. library. d. 23 Sussex place, Regent’s Park, London 23 Feb. 1883.
BRIGHT, Richard (3 son of Richard Bright of Bristol, merchant). b. Queen sq. Bristol 28 Sep. 1789; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 13 Sep. 1813; L.R.C.P. 23 Dec. 1816; assistant phys. to Guy’s hospital 1820–4, phys. 1824–43; F.R.S. 8 March 1821; F.R.C.P. 25 June 1832, Gulstonian lecturer 1833, Lumleian lecturer 1837, Censor 1836 and 1839, Consiliarius 1838 and 1843; phys. extraordinary to Queen Victoria 8 Aug. 1837; the leading consulting phys. in London; discovered several affections of the kidney, dependent upon an altered condition of the blood, called after him Bright’s disease or nephritis; author of Travels from Vienna through Lower Hungary 1818; Reports of medical cases, selected with a view of illustrating the symptom and cure of diseases by a reference to morbid anatomy 3 parts 1827–31. d. 11 Savile Row, London 16 Dec. 1858. Munk’s Roll of physicians iii, 155–60 (1878); Pettigrew’s Medical portrait gallery vol. 2 (1840), portrait; Proc. of Royal Soc. x, 1–4 (1860); Morbus Brighti von Joseph Buchner, Leipzig 1870.
BRIGHT, Richard (son of the succeeding). b. Abbots Leigh near Bristol 14 April 1822; ed. at Rugby and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1843; barrister I.T. 21 Nov. 1851; M.P. for East Somerset 19 Nov. 1868 to death. d. 28 Feb. 1878.
BRIGHT, Robert (brother of Richard Bright 1789–1858). b. 1795; partner in great mercantile house of Gibbs and Bright of Bristol, Liverpool and London, owners of the Eagle line of packets and of Great Britain steamship; took chief part in freeing port of Bristol from heavy dues levied on its commerce 1848 for which he was presented with a service of plate worth £1,000 at Bristol March 1855. d. Abbots Leigh near Bristol 19 Sep. 1869. I.L.N. xxvi, 325–6 (1855).
BRIGHTWELL, Cecilia Lucy (eld. child of the succeeding). b. Thorpe near Norwich 27 Feb. 1811; pupil of John Sell Cotman, etcher; etched many landscapes and subjects; author of Memorials of the life of Amelia Opie 1854, 2 ed. 1855; Palissy, the Huguenot potter a true tale 1858, 2 ed. 1877; Heroes of the laboratory and the workshop 1859, 2 ed. 1860 and 18 other books. d. Norwich 17 April 1875.
BRIGHTWELL, Thomas (son of Thomas Brightwell of Ipswich, tanner). b. 18 March 1787; articled to S. Daniell of Colchester, attorney; practised at Norwich 1810; partner with Thomas Bignold; mayor of Norwich 1837; F.L.S. 1821; made a fine collection of Insects especially Coleoptera, which he gave to the Norwich museum about 1844; author of Notes on the Pentateuch selected from the exegetical parts of Rosenmuller’s Scholia 1840. d. Norwich 17 Nov. 1868. Memorials of the life of Mr. Brightwell of Norwich by his daughter C. L. Brightwell 1869, portrait.
BRIGSTOCKE, Thomas. b. 1809; studied at Sass’s drawing school London; pupil of H. P. Briggs, R.A. and J. P. Knight, R.A.; spent 8 years in Paris and Italy; made a copy of Raphael’s ‘Transfiguration’ in the Vatican which was purchased for Christ Church, Albany st. Regent’s Park; went to Egypt 1847; painted an historical picture entitled ‘The prayer for victory’; exhibited 16 pictures at R.A. and 2 at B.I. 1843–65; author of The mutual scourges, or France and her neighbours, an historical drama in 4 acts 1871. d. 11 March 1881.
BRIMLEY, George (son of Mr. Brimley of Cambridge). b. Cambridge 29 Dec. 1819; ed. at Totteridge, Herts. 1830–5; entered at Trin. coll. Cam. Oct. 1838, scholar 1841, librarian 4 June 1845 to 1857; contributed articles to the Spectator and Fraser’s Mag. 1851 to death; one of the finest critics of his day. d. Cambridge 29 May 1857. Essays by the late G. Brimley edited by W. G. Clark, 3 ed. 1882, portrait.
BRINCKMAN, Sir Theodore Henry Lavington, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Theodore Henry Broadhead of Holly grove, Windsor, M.P. 1767–1820.) b. London 17 Jany. 1798; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam.; M.P. for Yarmouth 17 Jany. 1821 to 2 June 1826; created baronet 30 Sep. 1831; assumed by royal licence original family surname of Brinckman 5 July 1842. d. St. Leonards near Windsor 9 Feb. 1880.
BRIND, Frederick. Colonel Bengal army 20 June 1854; C.B. 9 June 1849. d. Sealkote Bengal 10 July 1857 aged 55.
BRINDLE, Very Rev. Thomas. b. Walton-le-Dale, Lancs. 18 Dec. 1791; ed. at Benedictine coll. Ampleforth, Yorks.; ordained priest Sep. 1815; administrator of Western diocese and Grand Vicar March 1829 to 1830; regent of college at Prior park, Bath 1830 to Nov. 1849; vicar general of diocese of Clifton 1850 an office which he held at various periods for 21 years; provost of the Cathedral Chapter 1852; domestic prelate to Pope Gregory xvi, 1854; received many persons into R.C. church during Tractarian movement. d. Bath 13 Dec. 1871. Tablet 23 Dec. 1871.
BRINE, George (3 son of James Brine, admiral R.N. who d. 1814). Entered navy Feb. 1797; captain 7 Dec. 1818; retired 1 Oct. 1846; retired admiral 23 March 1863. d. Richmond, Surrey 16 Nov. 1864 aged 79.
BRINTON, William (2 son of Henry Brinton of Kidderminster, carpet manufacturer who d. about 1856). b. Kidderminster 20 Nov. 1823; matric. at Univ. of London 1843, M.B. 1847, M.D. 1848; M.R.C.P. 1849, F.R.C.P. 1854, Croonian lecturer 1859; medical tutor at King’s college, London 1850–3; lecturer on forensic medicine at St. Thomas’s hospital 1853; phys. to Royal free hospital 1852–60 and to St. Thomas’s hospital 1860 to Nov. 1864; member of Alpine Club; F.R.S. 1864; author of Bürger’s Leonora, Englished [by W.B.] 1850; On the medical selection of lives for insurance 1856, 3 ed. 1861; The diseases of the stomach 1859. d. 24 Brook st. Grosvenor sq. London 17 Jany. 1867. Proc. of Royal Soc. xvi, 6–8 (1865).
BRISBANE, Sir Thomas Macdougall (eld. son of Thomas Brisbane of Largs, Ayrshire who d. 1812 aged 92). b. Brisbane house, Largs 23 July 1773; ensign 38 Foot 9 April 1789; lieut. col. 69 Foot 4 April 1800 to 30 May 1805 when placed on h.p.; commanded 1 brigade of 3 division in Peninsula 1812 to end of the war; commanded brigade in Canada 1813 and a brigade in army of occupation in France and afterwards the second division there; governor of New South Wales 1 Dec. 1821 to 1 Dec. 1825; colonel 34 Foot 16 Dec. 1826 to death; general 23 Nov. 1841; fought in 14 general actions and 23 other battles; erected an observatory near Brisbane house 1808, another at Paramatta near Sydney opened 2 May 1822 and a third at Makerstown near Kelso 1826 to which he added a magnetic station 1841 only one in Scotland; F.R.S. 10 May 1810; F.R.S. Edin. 1811, pres. 1832; gold medallist of Royal Astronom. Soc. 1828; F.G.S. 1833; pres. of British Assoc. at Edin. 1834; G.C.H. 1831; baronet 22 Feb. 1836; G.C.B. 6 Feb. 1837. d. Brisbane house 27 Jany. 1860.