Sir John Bright, 1st Baronet

He raised several companies in the neighbourhood of Sheffield, and received a captain's commission from Lord Fairfax, still aged only twenty-one.

Details were published in the pamphlet 'A Miraculous Victory' held in Wakefield Libraries Local Studies collection.

He accompanied Sir Thomas Fairfax in his expedition into Cheshire and commanded a brigade at the battle of Selby.

On Cromwell's second expedition into Scotland, Bright threw up his commission when the army arrived at Newcastle, in consequence of the refusal of a fortnight's leave.

In 1651 he was commissioned to raise a regiment to oppose the march of Charles II into England,[3] and he undertook the same service in 1659, on the rising headed by Sir George Booth.

[4] Bright was also part of the army command that helped foil the attempted assassination of Lord Protector in 1654.

'He may be presumed to have concurred in the measures for bringing about the Restoration, for we find that as early as July 1660 he was admitted into the order of baronets, having been previously knighted'.