William Bright (historian)

William Bright, D.D. (1824–1901) was an English Church historian. He was born at Doncaster, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, 14 December 1824, and was educated at Rugby School 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. Bright wrote a number of works and hymns. He died at Oxford, 6 March 1901. He published editions of several Church fathers.

Works

• Ancient Col­lects, Selected from Var­i­ous Ri­tu­als, 1857 and se­cond edi­tion, 1862.
• Athanasius and Other Po­ems, by a Fel­low of a Coll­ege, 1858.
• History of the Church, from the Edict of Milan to the Council of Chalcedon 1860.
• Sermons of St. Leo the Great on the In­car­na­tion, 1862 (translated).
• Faith and Life, 1864–66
• Liber Precum Publicarum: a Latin Version of the Book of Common Prayer. (With Canon Medd.) 1865.
• Hymns and Other Po­ems, 1866, 1874
• A Sermon on 'The Priesthood.' 1874.
• Chapters of Early Eng­lish Church His­to­ry, 1877.
• The Roman Claims tested by Antiquity., 1877.
• Chapters of Early English Church History 1878.
• Notes on the Canons of the First Four General Councils 1882.
• Private Prayers for a Week. 1882.
• Family Prayers for a Week. 1885.
• Iona, and other Verses. 1886.
• Addresses on the Seven Sayings from the Cross. 1887.
• The Roman See in the Early Church 1896.
• The Proper Sense of the Word 'Catholic' as applied to Christian Communities or Individuals. 1897.
• Some Aspects of Primitive Church Life 1898.
• The Law of Faith. 1898.
• Selected letters of William Bright, D.D.

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