Henry Bright - Artist Info

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    Henry Bright (1810-1873)

    Born in Saxmundham, Suffolk in June 1810, his date of birth is uncertain: although both his death certificate and gravestone state that he was fifty-nine when he died, third son and probably youngest of the nine children of Jerom Bright (1770-1846), a clockmaker and jeweller, and his wife, Susannah née Denny (c.1771-1842) who married by licence at Alburgh, Norfolk on 28 June 1790. The Bright family attended the Congregational chapel at Rendham near Saxmundham where there is a family vault. After attending a 'school for young gentlemen' at North Entrance, Saxmundham, run by Owen Haxell, Bright was apprenticed to a chemist in Woodbridge his parents then moved him to Norwich to work for a chemist and...

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