Claim: English merchant, Henry Arthur Bright, was related to Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton, who was also an English poet, patron of literature.
Evidence: Henry Arthur Bright (9 February 1830, Liverpool – 5 May 1884, Knotty Ash) was an English merchant and author. Henry Arthur Bright, who on his mother's side was related to Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton, was educated at Rugby School, under Archibald Tait, and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he qualified for his degree, but as a nonconformist was unable to make the subscription then required as a condition of graduation. Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton, FRS (19 June 1809 – 11 August 1885) was an English poet, patron of literature and politician.