William Broughton

William Broughton (1768–1821) was an English public servant and early settler in the Colony of New South Wales.

Life

Broughton was baptised in November 1768 at Chatham, Kent. He arrived in the Colony of New South Wales with the First Fleet, under the auspices of Governor Arthur Phillip, as a servant to surgeon John White. According to the obituary in the Sydney Gazette, in his various public duties "he afforded general satisfaction."

In October 1810, Broughton's horse Jerry lost to William Charles Wentworth on D'Arcy Wentworth's horse Gig, in the first official horse races on Australian soil.

Death At Appin, on Sunday 22 July 1821, William Broughton, Esquire, acting assistant commissary general, and a magistrate for the territory, died after a painful illness. The funeral took place on Wednesday 25 July at St. Luke's Church, Liverpool, and was attended by Governor Macquarie, and most of the civil and military officers, and prominent inhabitants of the Colony.