Papers of William Bright

Papers of William Bright and of his executors, including:

• Letters to Bright from H.P. Liddon, 1861-90
• Diaries of Bright's friendship with W.H. Seary, 1873-1900
• Notebooks containing antiquarian notes by Bright on Oxford university and city, especially Christ Church, ca. 1882-7
• Bank books, household account books and business papers, 1851-1901
• Legal and financial papers relating to the affairs of Bright's mother and step-father, Marianne and Daniel Maude, 1838-1911
• Account book of the trust fund set up under Maude's will, 1875-1910
• Five copies and drafts of Bright's will, 1900-1, with related papers of his executors, 1901-16
• Papers relating to chief rents in Hulme and Lower Broughton, Lancs., bought by Daniel Maude, 1851, and sold by Bright's executors, 1902

William Bright (1824-1901) was an ecclesiastical historian. Details are given in the Dictionary of National Biography.

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures see http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/specialcollections).

The papers were given to the Library by Morrell, Peel & Gamlen, solicitors, of Oxford, through J.F.R. Peel, in 1969.

Collection level description created by Emily Tarrant, Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts.

M. Clapinson and T.D. Rogers, Summary Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford. Acquisitions 1916-1975. (Oxford, 1991), vol. I, nos. 41723-52.

A fuller description is available in the Library and at the National Register of Archives.