Brighton, Albert George, 1900-1988 (palaeontologist)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1900 - 1988
Biography
Albert George Brighton (1900-1988), palaeontologist, was born in Streatham, London, on 29 December 1900. He attended St Leonard's School, Streatham, and Westminster City School before joining Christ's College, Cambridge. He became curator of the Sedgwick Museum in Cambridge in 1931, and thereafter devoted his working life to the identification, arrangement and cataloguing of its collections. He retired in 1968, and died in Chesterton, Cambridgeshire, on 9 April 1988.
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Fonds
Albert Brighton: Undergraduate lecture notebooks
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8065-8067
Scope and Contents
Notebooks on lectures attended by Albert Brighton while taking the natural sciences tripos at Cambridge University.
Dates:
1919-1922
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Cambridge University Library