The family returned to England due to the poor health of his mother (Julia Eliza née May) and they set up a photography studio, a printing press, and a store selling needlework, wool, and later books.
He also took part in activities of the London Missionary Society, making a trip to India.
In 1941, returning from a trip to the grave of his wife, he was killed when he was hit by a coal lorry while crossing Charminster Road.
[1] Bright collected stamps, antiques, fine furniture, and lepidoptera.
Leeds he published the Monograph of the British Aberrations of the Chalk-hill Blue (1938).