Warton, in his essay on Pope, speaks of the sixty fables as ‘exquisitely written.’ Bishop Trelawny afterwards gave Alsop a prebend in Winchester, with the rectory of Brightwell in Berkshire.
Mount Vernon was the home and workplace of Bach in the last years of his life, where he completed his research into the Bach flower remedies.
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Charlie Brooker, the British comedy writer, grew up in Brightwell-cum-Sotwell.
Brightwell Hall was extensively remodelled circa 1663 by Sir Samuel Barnardiston MP, leader of the Suffolk Whigs and a deputy Governor of the East India Company.
On his return to England and after the publication of his account, he appears to have lived a quiet life in holy orders, becoming Rector of Brightwell, Suffolk, in 1619, and probably he is the same man who became Rector of St Peter Mancroft in Norwich and who died in 1632.
His first ecclesiastical appointments were as rector of Brightwell and canon of Winchester Cathedral.
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Brightwell was born at Thorpe, near Norwich, on 27 February 1811, the eldest child of Thomas Brightwell (Ipswich 1787 – Norwich 1868), and his first wife, Mary Snell (1788 – 1815), daughter of William Wilkin Wilkin, of Costessey, near Norwich, and Cecilia Lucy (Jacomb), a lineal descendant of Thomas Jacomb.
It is adjacent to the parishes of Kesgrave to the north, Martlesham to the north east, Brightwell to the east, Purdis Heath to the south and the borough of Ipswich to the west.
One of Brightwell's most memorable roles was in Titanic as Quartermaster Hichens, the crew member who was at the Ship's Wheel at the time of RMS Titanic's impact with the iceberg which sank it.