BROOME, Arthur. Second lieut. Bengal artillery 13 Dec. 1827, colonel 29 April 1861 to death; controller general of military expenditure Bengal 1 April 1864 to death; M.G. 6 March 1868; C.S.I. 1869. d. at sea on passage from India 27 March 1871.
BROOME, Henry Alfred. b. Birmingham 1826; beat Fred. Mason (the Bulldog) £50 a side 11 Oct. 1843; fought Joe Rowe £50 a side 10 Dec. 1844, beat him at renewed fight 13 May 1845; fought Ben Terry £100 a side 3 Feb. 1846; fought Wm. Perry (the Tipton Slasher) £200 a side and the championship at Mildenhall near Newmarket 29 Sep. 1851 and beat him; fought Harry Orme near Brandon 18 April 1853 £250 a side when Broome won after 31 rounds in 2 hours 18 minutes, this was the best fight for the championship ever seen; paid £180 forfeit to Tom Paddock 20 Feb. 1855 who beat Broome £200 a side 19 May 1856; landlord of the Opera tavern, Haymarket London 1851–56; kept the Albion tavern, Warblington st. Portsmouth 1856; kept the Crown and Cushion, Little Russell st. London; a public caterer at principal race meetings. d. 30 Frith st. Soho, London 2 Nov. 1865. H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica iii, 308–39 (1881), portrait; Fights for the championship by Francis Dowling (1860) 234–55; Illust. sporting news iv, 561 (1865), portrait.
BROOME, John (brother of the preceding). b. Birmingham 14 March 1818; fought 7 prize fights all of which he won 1834–40; fought Jack Hannan £500 a side at New park farm Oxfordshire 26 Jany. 1841 when he beat him after 47 rounds; fought Bungaree the Australian £300 a side at Mildenhall 27 April 1842 when Broome won after 42 rounds; presented with a golden belt at Castle tavern Holborn, London 27 Jany. 1842; landlord of the Rising Sun, Air st. Piccadilly 1841; invented a gun capable of carrying a ball of 50lb. weight 2 miles; cut his throat at the Wrekin tavern, Broad Court, Bow st. London 31 May 1855. Fights for the championship by Francis Dowling (1860) 370–8; The new Tom Spring’s Life in London (1844) 137, portrait.
BROPHEY, Rev. George (son of Mr. Brophey who was executed after battle of Vinegar Hill 1798). b. near Kilkenny Aug. 1775; ed. at Carlow college; studied theology in Paris; ordained priest 1798; went to America 1843; pastor of St. Paul’s R.C. church Harlem, New York 1853–66; settled in Iowa 1866. d. Mercy hospital, Davenport, Iowa 16 Oct. 1880 in 106 year.
BROS, Thomas. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1831; barrister L.I. 22 Nov. 1831; recorder of Abingdon 30 March 1852 to April 1878. d. Springfield, Upper Clapton, London 16 May 1883 aged 79.
BROTHERHOOD, Rowland. Railway contractor; proprietor of large iron and wagon works at Chippenham where some of the best iron bridges ever sent to India were made; constructed Bristol and South Wales Union railway and piers; Assoc. Inst. C.E. 1 May 1866. d. Everton villa, Chertsey road, Bristol 5 March 1883.
BROTHERTON, Edward. b. Manchester 1814; engaged in the silk trade; wrote letters on popular education in Manchester Guardian which led to formation of Education Aid Society and paved the way for Education Act of 1870; author of Mormonism its rise and progress 1846; Spiritualism, Swedenborg and the New Church 1860; editor and chief writer of first vol. of a monthly periodical The Dawn (Manchester 1861–2); wrote Outlines of my mental history in the Intellectual Repository 1849 and many articles under pseudonyms of Libra and Pilgrim in Swedenborgian periodicals. d. Cornbrook, Manchester 23 March 1866.
BROTHERTON, Joseph (son of John Brotherton of Manchester, cotton spinner). b. Whittington, Derbyshire 22 May 1783; cotton spinner at Manchester 1802–19; joined Bible Christian church 1805, pastor about 1818; M.P. for Salford (the first) 20 Dec. 1832 to death, his expenses being paid by his constituents; chairman of private bills committee; active member of Anti-Corn law league. d. suddenly while travelling in an omnibus from his residence Rosehill, Pendleton into Manchester 7 Jany. 1857, his statue by M. Noble in Peel park was uncovered 6 Aug. 1858. J. B. Robinson’s Derbyshire gatherings (1866) 42–4, portrait; Book-lore ii, 78–82 (1885); Illust. news of the world ii, 117 (1858), portrait; I.L.N. viii, 309 (1846), portrait, xxxiii, 210 (1858).
BROTHERTON, Sir Thomas William. b. 1785; ensign Coldstream Guards 24 Jany. 1800; captain 14 Dragoons 4 June 1807, major 26 March 1812 to Oct. 1820; served in Egypt 1801, in Germany 1805 and during Peninsular war 1808–14; lieut. col. 12 Lancers 26 Oct. 1820 to 24 May 1827 when placed on h.p.; aide-de-camp to the Sovereign 22 July 1830 to 23 Nov. 1841; lieut. col. 16 Lancers 10 Feb. 1832 to 23 Nov. 1841; inspector general of cavalry 1844; colonel of 15 Hussars 18 May 1849, and of 1 Dragoon Guards 17 July 1859 to death; general 1 April 1860; C.B. 3 Feb. 1817, K.C.B. 5 July 1855, G.C.B. 28 June 1861; received the war medal with 8 clasps. d. at his son’s house near Esher 20 Jany. 1868.
BROUGH, Annie (dau. of Thomas Romer of Liverpool). b. Liverpool 19 Dec. 1827; ed. at Royal academy of Music Sep. 1843 to June 1846; made her first appearance in London at Princess’s theatre as Adalgisa in Norma 1847; sang at Haymarket theatre; prima donna at the Surrey theatre 1850. (m. April 1851 Wm. Brough the dramatist 1826–70). d. 71 Gower st. London 1 Feb. 1852. Musical World xxx, 94 (1852).