L. P. Delves Broughton
(1836-1902)
21 June 1861

Volume 4, page 109, sitting number 4507.

Lewis Price Delves Broughton was born on 10 May 1836, the second son of Reverend Thomas Delves Broughton of Bletchley, Buckinghamshire. In 1857 he graduated from Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and on 19 May 1857 became a student at Lincoln’s Inn. He was called to the bar at Lincoln’s Inn on 30 April 1860. He was the recorder of Rangoon, and the acting puisne judge of the Supreme Court of Calcutta 1878-1879 and 1881-1888. From 1878 he was also the administrator-general of Bengal.

He was the author of various works on jurisprudence in India, including The Code of Civil Procedure in India (1865) and Custody and Preservation of Property in India of Deceased Persons (1873).

On 26 December 1867 he married Mary Elizabeth Randall, eldest daughter of Major-General Frank Turner of the Royal (Bengal) Artillery.

Sources: Joseph Foster’s Men at the Bar (1885) and J.F. Kirk’s Critical Dictionary of English Literature (1891).

Lewis Price Delves Broughton 'of Catisfield near Tichfield Hants' died, aged 65, on 3 January 1902 'at 7 Council House-street Calcutta India.' He left an estate valued at £16,338.

[From an album compiled by Gertrude Frances Vesey of Long Ditton, Surrey. The daughter of George and Harriet Vesey, she was baptised at Long Ditton on 4 July 1842. She was 18 years old when she began to compile the album. She lived at home with her parents for many years, until on 23 November 1876, at the age of 34, she became the second wife of the 58-year-old Reverend John William Hawtrey (1818-1891). She appears on the 1881 census living at St Michael’s School, Langley Marish, Buckinghamshire, where her husband was the headmaster 'without the cure of souls.' The couple had a three-year-old daughter called Gabrielle and a nine-month-old son called Guy.]