Alfred Broughton
Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly
for West Moreton
In office
3 May 1860 – 10 December 1860
Preceded byNew seat
Succeeded byHenry Challinor
Personal details
Born
Alfred Delves Broughton

(1826-11-20)20 November 1826
England
Died10 March 1895(1895-03-10) (aged 68)
Chertsey, Surrey, England
SpouseClemence La Monnerie dit Fattorini
RelationsErnest Broughton (son)
OccupationStock agent, police magistrate

Alfred Delves Broughton (20 November 1826 – 10 March 1895) was a politician in Queensland, Australia. He was a Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.

Early life

Alfred Delves Broughton was born on 20 November 1826 in England, the 15th of 18 children of Sir Henry Broughton and his wife Mary (née Pigott).[1]

On 16 March 1858 Broughton married Clemence La Monnerie dit Fattorini at St James' Church, Sydney, New South Wales. The couple had 2 sons and 2 daughters:[1][2][3][4][5]

Broughton was an agent and public servant.[1]

Politics

Alfred Boughton entered the Queensland Legislative Assembly on 3 May 1860 when he was elected as the member to represent the electoral district of West Moreton in the 1860 colonial election for the first Parliament of Queensland after separation from New South Wales in 1859. He resigned the seat on 21 December 1860 so that he could take up the position of police magistrate in Drayton. Henry Challinor won the resulting by-election on 12 January 1861.[9][10]

Civic life

His Excellency the Governor of Queensland appointed by commission, under his hand and seal, Alfred Delves Broughton, Esq.to be Captain of the Cavalry of the Queensland Volunteer Rifle Corps on 26 May 1860.[11][12]

Later life

Having married secondly Mary Florence Louisa Rosenzweig, by whom he had issue including a son and namesake, Alfred (born 1891), educated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge,[13] Broughton died on 10 March 1895 in Surrey, England.[14]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Broughton, Alfred Delves". Re-Member Database. Queensland Parliament. Retrieved 28 January 2015.
  2. ↑ Gill, James Connal Howard (1971). "Jean Baptiste Charles Lamommerie dit Fattorini, Late of Port Macquarie, N.S.W." (PDF). Journal of the Royal Historical Society of Queensland. 9 (2): 134–167. Retrieved 26 February 2014.
  3. ↑ "Family Notices". The Sydney Morning Herald. National Library of Australia. 18 March 1858. p. 1. Retrieved 26 February 2014.
  4. ↑ "Search birth historical records". Queensland Government. Retrieved 26 February 2014.
  5. ↑ "Search death historical records". Queensland Government. Retrieved 26 February 2014.
  6. ↑ "Family Notices". The North Australian, Ipswich and General Advertiser. Ipswich, Qld.: National Library of Australia. 1 November 1859. p. 3. Retrieved 27 February 2014.
  7. ↑ "Family Notices". The Courier (Brisbane). Brisbane: National Library of Australia. 20 December 1861. p. 2. Retrieved 27 February 2014.
  8. ↑ "Family Notices". The Courier (Brisbane). Brisbane: National Library of Australia. 16 January 1862. p. 4. Retrieved 27 February 2014.
  9. ↑ "Part 2.15 – Alphabetical Register of Members of the Legislative Assembly 1860–2017 and the Legislative Council 1860–1922" (PDF). Queensland Parliamentary Record 2015–2017: The 55th Parliament. Queensland Parliament. Archived from the original on 26 April 2020. Retrieved 27 April 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  10. ↑ "Queensland". The Argus. Melbourne: National Library of Australia. 5 January 1861. p. 5. Retrieved 26 February 2014.
  11. ↑ "Queensland Volunteer Rifle Corps". The North Australian, Ipswich And General Advertiser. Vol. V, no. 253. Queensland, Australia. 1 June 1860. p. 3. Retrieved 31 July 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
  12. ↑ Pixley, Norman S. (Norman Stewart), d. 1988 (1 January 1949), The military defence force of Queensland, Royal Historical Society of Queensland, p. 254, retrieved 31 July 2020{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  13. ↑ Biographical History of Gonville and Caius College 1349-1897: Admissions since January 1, 1899, Cambridge University Press, 1912, p. 114
  14. ↑ "FreeBMD". Retrieved 26 February 2014.
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