It took 16 men to carry him to his grave.
Mr.Baker of Worcester, supposed to be larger than Bright, was interred in a coffin that was larger than an ordinary hearse.

In 1797 there was buried Philip Hayes, a professor of music, who was as heavy as Bright (616 pounds).
Mr.Spooner, an eminent farmer of Warwickshire, who died in 1775, aged fifty-seven, weighed 569 pounds and measured over 4 feet across the shoulders.

The two brothers Stoneclift of Halifax, Yorkshire, together weighed 980 pounds.
Keysler in his travels speaks of a corpulent Englishman who in passing through Savoy had to use 12 chairmen; he says that the man weighed 550 pounds.

It is recorded on the tombstone of James Parsons, a fat man of Teddington, who died March 7, 1743, that he had often eaten a whole shoulder of mutton and a peck of hasty pudding.

Keysler mentions a young Englishman living in Lincoln who was accustomed to eat 18 pounds of meat daily.