Mynors Bright was educated at Shrewsbury (an English independent boarding school for pupils aged 1318), and was a senior optime in mathematics in college.
He was educated at Shrewsbury, and entered Magdalene College, Cambridge, on 3 July 1835. He was a senior optime in mathematics, and took a second-class in classics. Shrewsbury School is an English independent boarding school for pupils aged 1318 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. 
