Henry Bright (scholar)

Henry Bright (scholar)

Henry Bright (1724–1803) was a scholar, teacher, and school chaplain

Bright was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford, where he became a Fellow and chaplain. He was the headmaster of Abingdon School from 1758 to 1774, and of New College School, Oxford, from 1774 to 1790). He held the curacy of Waldron, Sussex (1758), was vicar of Denchworth, Berkshire (1775–1790), and was rector of Bicton and Chettlehampton, Devon (1790–1803). He published "Praxis", a Latin and English textbook for schools, in 1783.


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