Brightman, Frank Edward (1856–1932)

English liturgist and historian. His reputation as the foremost liturgical scholar of his day in England was established by his Liturgies, Eastern and Western, and English Rite (1915). The archbishops Temple of Canterbury and Maclagan of York made use of his learning in the Responsio to the papal bull Apostolicae Curae of Leo XIII in 1897.

Brightman was born in Bristol and studied at Oxford University. Ordained deacon in 1884, he became one of the librarians of Pusey House, Oxford, in 1903. He was an examiner in theology in 1890, and in 1902 he was made a prebendary of Lincoln.

He contributed to the Dictionary of Church History (1912), notably on the history of the prayer book, and wrote a study of Bishop King of Lincoln (1912), editions of Lancelot Andrewes's Preces Privatae (1903), and a Manual for the Sick (1909).