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Balliol College; Brasenose College.
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Henry Bright
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Probably educated at King"s Worcester himself, he went on to Brasenose College, Oxford as a "plebeian" and then to Balliol College, where he took a Bachelor (1584) and Masters (1587). Fuller claims that "this Master Bright placed by divine Providence in this city in the Marches that he might equally communicate the lustre of grammar learning to youth both of England and Wales". did attend the school from both countries. The school under Bright also provided yearly "exhibitions" of 2/- for pupils he sent to colleges at Oxford and Cambridge.
His reputation was also echoed by Anthony Wood in his Fasti Oxoniensis:
He had a most excellent faculty in instructing youths in Latin, Greek and Hebrew, most of which were afterwards sent to the universities, where they proved eminent to emulation.
He was also an excellent preacher, was resorted to far and near. The posterity of this Hen.
Bright do now live in genteel fashion in Worcestershire. Bright is principally remembered for the pupils he taught and frequently sent to Balliol many of whom became well known.
They include:
John Beale, in whom he helped develop his interest in Erasmus
Samuel Butler, a poet and satirist
Thomas Good, subsequently Master of Balliol College, Oxford
Thomas Hall
Edward Winslow, one of the Pilgrim Fathers
Bright"s epitaph can be found in Worcester Cathedral and is quoted by Fuller.
Mane, Hospes, et lege. Magister Henricus Bright,
celeberrimus Gymnasiarcha,
qui Scholae Regiae istic fundatae
per totos quadraginta annos summa cum laude praefuit:
Quo non alter magis sedulus fuit scitusve aut dexter
in Latinis, Graecis, Hebraicis Literis feliciter edocendis:
Teste utraque Academia, quam instruxit aifatim numerosa pube literaria;
Sed et totidem annis coque amplius Theologiam professus,
et hujus Ecclesiae per septennium Canonicus major,
sepissimè hie et alibi sacrum Dei Praeconem magno cum zelo et fructu egit;
Vir pius, doctus, integer, frugi, de Republicâ deque Ecclesia optimè meritus,
à laboribus perdiu pernoctuque ab anno 1562 ad 1626,
strenue usque extant latis, 4to Martii suaviter requievit in Domino.".
