A love for what is just

Howard Gregg reflects on the impact of the Quaker faith on John Bright

by Howard Gregg 11th November 2011

John Bright was educated at several Quaker schools before he entered his father’s cotton mill in Rochdale at the age of fifteen. Between 1839-1889 the firm bore the name of ‘John Bright and Brothers’, although from 1840 his brother Thomas managed the mill. Bright was thus enabled to pursue a political career, reflecting the political emergence of the industrial and commercial class after 1832.