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BROTHERS—BROUGHTON.
Pellew, in the Mediterranean; and next in the Impregnable 104, and Britannia 120, flag-ships at Plymouth of Sir Alex. Cochrane, as also in the Naiad 46, commanded in the Channel by Hon. Robt. Cavendish Spencer. On 8 Nov. 1823, he was made Lieutenant into the Active 46, Capt. Andrew King, employed on the Lisbon and Mediterranean stations. He has been on half-pay since 1824.
BROTHERS. (Lieut., 1818. f-p., 11; h-p., 29.)
John Brothers was born 15 March, 1793.
This officer entered the Navy, 12 May, 1807, as Ordinary, on board the Bolina hired armed ship, Lieut.-Commander Edw. Clarributt, and in the early part of the following Dec. was wrecked in a heavy gale off the Land’s End. He then joined the Insolent gun-brig, Lieut.-Commander John Row Morris, in which we find him cruizing for some time on the coast of France, and actively engaged at the destruction of the French shipping in Basque Roads in April, 1809. Mr. Brothers, who attained the rating of Midshipman in the course of the ensuing month, removed, in Oct. of the same year, to the Goldfinch sloop, Capt. Arden Adderley, employed off the coast of Spain, where he was captured, while in charge of a prize near St. Andero, 7 May, 1810, and ultimately sent, after enduring great hardships, to Verdun. He returned home in May, 1814; passed his examination 6 July following; served, from Jan. to Sept. 1815, in the Hyacinth 20, Capt. Alex. Renton Sharpe, stationed principally otF Cherbourg, to prevent the escape of Napoleon Buonaparte; next joined, for a very short time, the Queen Charlotte, flag-ship at Portsmouth of Sir Edw. Thornbrough; and was afterwards employed for two years and a half, as Admiralty Midshipman, in the Harrier 18, Capt. Sir Chas. Thos. Jones, on the Halifax station, where he was appointed, 24 Feb. and 4 April, 1818, Acting-Lieutenant of the Leander 60, Rear-Admiral Sir David Milne, and Opossum 10, Capt. Lord John Hay. He was officially promoted 14 July ensuing, and in Aug. in the same year was paid off. He has not since been afloat.
Lieut. Brothers married, 9 July, 1836, Harriet, second daughter of Paul Storr, Esq., of Beckenbam. Agent – F. Dufaur.
BROUGHTON. (Retired Commander, 1831. f-p., 32; h-p., 32.)
John Broughton entered the Navy, in 1783, as a Boy, on board the Irresistible 74, Capts. Sir Andrew Snape Hamond and Geo. Bowyer, and in 1787 joined the Sandwich, Capt. Tompkins, both guard-ships at Chatham. From June, 1793, to Feb. 1797, he served in the Polyphemus 64, Capt. Geo. Lumsdaine, and Penelope cutter, Lieut.-Commander Daniel Burdwood, on the Irish, Mediterranean, and West India stations, and was in the former ship when she took possession of the Dutch 64, Overyssel, 22 Oct. 1795. He then became Midshipman of the Kingston schooner, Lieut.-Commander Wm. Ross, and afterwards Master’s Mate of the Mermaid, of 40 guns and 208 men, and Loire 38, both commanded in the Channel by Capt. Jas. Newman Newman. While in the Mermaid Mr. Broughton assisted, 31 Dec. 1797, at the capture of L’Aventure privateer, of 12 guns – witnessed, 30 June, 1798, the surrender of the 40-gun frigate La Seine to the Jason and Pique – and, on 17 Oct. following, took part in a gallant action of two hours and a half with the French frigate Loire, of 46 guns and 330 men, which terminated in the separation of the combatants, each being greatly disabled. In the Loire Mr. Broughton was present, 6 Feb. 1800, at the capture, in company with the Danae 20, and Fairy, Harpy, and Railleur sloops, of the French 38-gun frigate Pallas, under the heavy fire of a battery on one of the Seven Islands. In March, 1801, he was appointed Acting-Lieutenant of the Fairy sloop, Capt. Fred. Warren, on the West India station, where, after a further servitude as Master’s Mate in the Leviathan 74, bearing the flag of Sir John Thos. Duckworth, he was officially promoted to the command of the Staunch gun-brig, 1 Aug. 1801. He left that vessel in Feb. 1803, and was afterwards appointed – in March, 1804, to the Sea Fencibles, at Kilrush, in Ireland – 6 Nov. following, to the Gorgon 44, Capts. Wm. Wilkinson, Fras. Stanfell, and Wm. B. Ryder, employed on the river Shannon – 1 Aug. 1806, to the Ardent 64, Capt. Geo. Eyre, at Chatham – 10 Sept. in the same year, to the Challenger 18, Capt. Wm. B. Ryder, lying in the Downs – 15 Dec. 1807, to the Impress Service, at Fareham, in Hampshire – and, 26 July, 1811, to the command of a Signal Station at Whitelands, near Lyme Regis. Commander Broughton, who had been on half-pay since April, 1815, accepted his present rank 1 Nov. 1831.
BROUGHTON. (Capt., 1831. f-p., 21; h-p., 9.)
William Broughton, born 23 Oct. 1804, at Doddington Hall, Cheshire, the seat of his maternal grandfather, the Rev. Sir Thos. Delves Broughton, Bart., is eldest son of the late Capt. Wm. Robt. Broughton, R.N., C.B., Colonel of Royal Marines, who circumnavigated the world under Vancouver, served as Commodore at the reduction of Java in 1811, and died, 12 March, 1821, after 50 years’ servitude of his country; and nephew of the present General Sir John Delves Broughton, Bart.
This officer entered the Navy, in Nov. 1817, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Spencer 76, guard-ship at Plymouth, commanded by his father, and was next, from April, 1818, to March, 1820, a student at the Royal Naval College at Portsmouth. He then re-embarked on board the Rochfort 80, flagship of Sir Graham Moore in the Mediterranean, where he was successively lent, until April, 1823, to the Racer cutter, and Rose and Racehorse sloops, Capts. Henry Dundas and Lord Colchester. On the latter date he removed to the Cambrian 46, Capt. Gawen Wm. Hamilton, in which ship, after serving at the blockade of Algiers, he returned home and was paid off in June, 1824. He shortly afterwards, on passing his examination, proceeded to the East Indies, as Mate, in the Boadicea 46, Commodore Sir Jas. Brisbane, and under that officer he took an active part in the Burmese war, from Aug. 1825, until its conclusion in the early part of 1826. For four months of that period he commanded, with great credit, though to the severe injury of his health, the Boadicea’s cutter up the river Irawady; and was present in the actions of 1, 2, and 5 Dec. 1825, when the enemy were routed on all sides, and their numerous stockades and breastworks in the neighbourhood of Prome and on the almost inaccessible heights of Napadee carried by assault. After the treaty of Melloone, Mr. Broughton, who had been promoted to the rank of Lieutenant by commission dated 8 April, 1825, was sent wdth despatches to Rangoon, where he joined, and for some time had charge of, the Alligator 28, Capt. Henry Ducie Chads. He next served, from 8 March, 1827, until 1830, in the Briton 46, Capt. Hon. Wm. Gordon, employed on various Particular Services on the North Sea, Lisbon, North America, and West India stations; and, on 20 Feb. in the latter year, was advanced to the command of the Primrose 18, stationed on the coast of Africa. On 7 Sept. following he brought to close action, and in the most gallant style boarded and carried, after a furious resistance of 10 minutes, the Spanish slave-ship Veloz Passagera, mounting 18 long 18-pounders and two 12’s, with a crew (independently of 555 slaves who were on board) of 180 men, of whom 46 were killed and 20 wounded; the loss of the Primrose amounting, out of a complement of 125 men and boys (exclusive of 35 prisoners, who proved a source of great trouble and anxiety), to 3 killed and 13 wounded, including her Commander, who received a desperate pike-wound in the abdomen, the effects of which continue to this day.[1] For his meritorious conduct on this occasion Capt. Broughton, after accomplishing his
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1830, p. 2451.
