Background
He was born in Windsor to Thomas Broughton and Mary Stafford.
He was born in Windsor to Thomas Broughton and Mary Stafford.
At the age of nine he became an apprentice tailor, owning his own business by the age of 23. By this time he was farming, with over 150,000 acres in the Lachlan River district, together with the Artarmon estate and a residence at Paddington. In 1859 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for West Sydney, but he was defeated in 1860.
Broughton died at Glebe in 1901.