Charles Edward Bright
Charles Edward Bright Victoria.
Bright belonged to an old Worcestershire family possessing estates in the counties of Worcester and Hereford. He was the fifth son of Robert Bright, of Bristol and Abbots Leigh, Somerset, by Caroline, daughter of Thomas Tyndall, of The Fort, Bristol. The Bright family were merchants who owned land in the West Indies, and were compensated £8,384 by the British government for 404 slaves upon the abolition of slavery.[2]
Bright's brothers were
East Somerset in 1868, and Lieut.-General Sir Robert Onesiphorus Bright
.
Bright emigrated to Australia, arriving in Melbourne in Jan. 1854. He became a partner in the firms of
CMG in the 1883 Birthday Honours.[3]
References
- ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 15 November 2013.
- ^ Fernandes, C. Island Off the Coast of Asia: Instruments of statecraft in Australian foreign policy (Melbourne: Monash University Publishing, 2018), 14.
- ^ Mennell, Philip (1892). . The Dictionary of Australasian Biography. London: Hutchinson & Co – via Wikisource.
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