Agent TypePersonGenderMaleHistoryInitially trading out of Bristol, England, the Brights' acitivities spread across Great Britain to continental Europe, Africa (including the slave trade) the North and South Americas, the Caribbean (notable Jamaica), Australia and New Zealand. Industrial involvements included mining, milling and manufacture, ship, railway and canal construction, landed estates, plantations. Members of the family were prominent in medicine, law, politics, religion and a wide range of social and cultural activities. Willed to Australia in 1919, the collection interlocks with that of Gibbs, Bright and Company.
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Given NameAlfredMiddle NameErnestFamily NameBright
Bright, Alfred E.. University of Melbourne Archives, accessed 14/02/2026, https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/58881
