Brightman, Frank Edward

BRIGHTMAN, FRANK EDWARD: Church of England; b. at Bristol June 18, 1856. He was educated at University College, Oxford (B.A., 1879), and was ordered deacon in 1884 and ordained priest in the following year. He was chaplain of University College from 1884 to 1887 and assistant curate of St. John the Divine, Kennington, in 1887–88, while from 1884 to 1903 he was Pusey Librarian. He was also examiner in the Theology School in 1899–1901, and since 1902 has been fellow and tutor of Magdalen College, Oxford, as well as prebendary of Carlton with Thurlby in Lincoln Cathedral. He has written Liturgies Eastern and Western (vol. i., Oxford, 1896) and What Objections have been made to English Orders? (London, 1896), and has also translated the Preces Privatæ of Lancelot Andrewes (1903).