Albert George Brighton

Albert George Brighton (1900–1988) was a British museum curator and palaeontologist.

Early life Brighton was born in London, England on 29 December 1900, the son of George Preston Brighton, a gardener and his wife. He was educated at St Leonard's School, Streatham and later Westminster City School in London. He won a scholarship to attend Christ College, Cambridge in 1919. He was in the first class in part 1 of the Natural Sciences Tripos in 1921, and took a second class degree in geology in 1921. He shared the Wiltshire Prize. Many of the staff at Cambridge preferred their existing methods of description. Dorothy Hill, who was undertaking her PhD under Elles’ supervision brought her collection of Carboniferous corals from Australia, and utilised Gertrude Elles’ system, necessitating a change in how the fossils were described and indexed at the Sedgwick. Brighton's goal was to catalogue 12,000 items a year. When he retired in 1968 he had catalogued almost 375,000 items over the course of 37 years. The collection became more accessible and was considered a highly desirable research collection to utilize.

The A.G. Brighton Building, a geological conservation laboratory, was named for Brighton at Cambridge in 1991.