William Bright, D.D.
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William Bright, D.D. (1824-1901) was an English Church historian. He was born at Doncaster. England, December 14, 1824, and was educated at Rugby and University College, Oxford. He was ordained a priest in 1850, and for nine years was a theological tutor at Trinity College, Glenalmond. Returning to Oxford as tutor, he became in 1868 canon of Christ Church and regius professor of ecclesiastical history. He died at Oxford, March 6, 1901. He published editions of several Church fathers. Among his numerous original works may be mentioned:
- History of the Church, from the Edict of Milan to the Council of Chalcedon (1860)
- Chapters of Earlyn English Church History (1878)
- Notes on the Canons of the First Four General Councils (1882)
- The Roman See in the Early Church (1896)
- Some Aspects of Primitive Church Life (1898)
- This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.
