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Name: BRIGHT, Richard George Tyndall CMG (Lieut.-Col.)
Nee: son of Charles Edward Bright
Birth Date: 5.2.1872 Melbourne, Australia
Death Date: 10.7.1944 New Forest, Hampshire
Nationality: British
First Date: 1900
Last Date: 1902
Profession: 1902 Head of the British Boundary Commission to demarcate the boundary between Western Uganda and the Belgian Congo.
Married: In London 23 Apr 1912 Murielle Dorothea Lucas Lucas-Tooth b. 7 May 1882 Woolahra, NSW, Australia, d. 27 Oct 1969 Easthampstead, Berks.
Children: Robert Charles Leonard Lucas (18 Apr 1914-2001); Douglas Richard Lucas (4 Sep 1918-2001)
Book Reference: Moyse, Kenya Diary, Debrett, North, Land, Chandler, Bright
War Service: Rifle Brigade
School: Wellington College
General Information:
Debrett - entered Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own) 1892, became Capt. and Brevet Major 1899, and Major 1908; retired 1919. Uganda 1897-8 (despatches, medal with clasp), Juba Expedition 1898-8 (despatches, 3rd Class Brilliant Star of Zanzibar, Brevet Major), European War 1918-19 in France; engaged on Boundary Delimitation between Anglo-Egyptian Soudan and Abyssinia 1899-1900, on Boundary delimitation between Soudan, Uganda, British E. Africa and Abyssinia 1900-1902, as 2nd British Commr. on Anglo-German Boundary Commsn, between Uganda and GEA 1902-04, on Anglo-German Boundary Commn. between British and German EA 1904-06, and as Ch. British Commr. of the Uganda-Congo Boundary Commn. 1907-10, with rank of Lieut.-Col.; was a Gen. Staff Officer 1915-17.
North - Appt. to the Maj. J.R.L. Macdonald "Jubaland" expedition to the Upper Nile 18-6-1897; in Macdonald's 2nd column arr. Ravine 26-9-1897; expedition delayed by Sudanese mutiny, reformed and dep. Kampala for North 1-4-1898; Arr. Mombasa at end of expedition 4-3-1899; dep. Mombasa for London 26-4-1899. On Survey with Major H.H. Austin from Sudan to Ravine via Lake Rudolf starting in Nov 1900; arr. Baringo Post with the expedition survivors, 17 out of 62 2-8-1901; dep. Mombasa for England 8-9-1901. Arr. Mombasa from England 30-7-1902 as 2nd British member of Anglo German Boundary Commission.
Land - 1907 - R.G.T. Bright - Grazing, 2000 acres, Marendat River, 16-2-04, Registered 24-10-07
North - Permission granted to purchase 1000 acres of land 3-6-1904; Commission dissolved dep. Mombasa for England 15-12-1905
Bright - born on 5 Feb 1872. His father, Charles Edward Bright, was serving in Australia as a colonial commissioner; his mother, Anna Maria Georgiana Manners-Sutton Bright (known as Minnie), was the daughter of the 3rd Viscount Canterbury, who was Governor of Victoria at the time of Richard's birth. When Minnie's father died in 1877, her brother assumed the title as 4th Viscount Canterbury. Minnie was in regular communication with influential British aristocrats serving in important government positions, including Lord Salisbury.
1939 England and Wales Register living in Hampshire with wife