Henry Bright (18 January 1784 – 26 March 1869) was a British Whig politician, MP for Bristol 1820–1830.
Admitted to Lincoln's Inn in 1804, he was called to the bar in 1810,[1] practising as a barrister on the western circuit.
[2] Elected MP for Bristol in 1820 as a Whig in the West India Interest, Bright generally opposed the Tory government of Lord Liverpool.
However, he was mindful of constituency considerations,[2] and in May 1820 supported the Western Union Canal bill as "eminently advantageous".
[7] After the Slavery Abolition Act 1833, in 1836, Bright collected slave compensation for Edward Smith of the Haughton Pen Estate in Saint Elizabeth Parish, Jamaica.