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_Christian Life 10 and 17 May 1884_; _N. Hawthorne and his wife ii_, 21–7 (1885). 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.