2000.0025
Papers of the Bright and Manners-Sutton Families [1651-1944]
Creator(s): 
Bright Family [-],
 Manners-Sutton Family [-]

The papers in this acquisition were created and gathered by the Manners-Sutton Family and the Bright Family.

Boxes 1 and 2 consist of documents originally stored in the black ministerial despatch box of Charles Manners-Sutton, First Viscount Canterbury and father of the Governor of Victoria, John Henry Thomas Manners-Sutton. The box was passed through the family until its contents were deposited in the Archive in 2000. The documents found in the box consist of a mixture of correspondence with members of Parliament when Charles Manners-Sutton was Speaker, including Sir Robert Peel; with members of the Royal Family; and with members of the Manners-Sutton family including his sons, 1810-1845. The box was added to by later family members such a Charles Henry Manners Sutton Bright, c.1920-c.1945.
Boxes 3 and 6 consist of legal documents and indentures relating to the Bright Family, 1651-1832; boxes 4, 7 and 8 consist of more legal documents of the Bright Family 1750-1839, including Articles of Copartnership for Mess'rs Gibbs, Bright and Co., Melbourne.
Box 5 consists of Henry Bright's Letterbook, 1740-1769; and Lowbridge Bright's Letterbook, 1774-1780.
The contents of the majority of these boxes were listed by Mrs. C. Bright.

8 archive boxes, 1 item
Other, individuals