The Ven. Hugh Bright (1867 - 1935) was
Archdeacon of Stafford
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The archdeaconry was erected – as ...
from 1922 to 1933.
Bright was educated at
Trinity College, Cambridge
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and
Ripon College Cuddesdon
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. He was a
curate
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of St Thomas,
Winchester
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from 1891 to 1895; and then of All Souls’
Leeds
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from 1895 to 1901. He was
Rector
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of
Badsworth
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from 1901 to 1906;
Vicar
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of
King Cross
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from, 1906 to 1921; and a
Canon Residentiary
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Originally, a canon was a cleric living with others in a clergy house or, later, i ...
of
Lichfield Cathedral
Lichfield Cathedral is an Anglican cathedral in Lichfield, Staffordshire, England, one of only three cathedrals in the United Kingdom with three spires (together with Truro Cathedral and St Mary's Cathedral in Edinburgh), and the only medie ...
from 1922 to 1933.
He died on 4 October 1935.
[''The Rev. Hugh Bright.'' ]The Times
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(London, England), Saturday, Oct 05, 1935; pg. 18; Issue 47187.
Notes
1867 births
Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
Alumni of Ripon College Cuddesdon
Archdeacons of Stafford
1935 deaths
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