Background
Broughton was born in London on 5 July 1704, the son of the rector of Saint Andrew"s, Holborn.
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Thomas Broughton
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He was educated at Eton, before going up to Cambridge in about 1723.
Career
There "for the sake of a scholarship he entered himself of Gonville and Caius College." In 1727, after taking Bachelor of Arts, he was admitted to deacon"s orders, and in 1728 he was ordained priest, and proceeded to the Master of Arts He served for several years as curate of Offley, Hertfordshire, and in 1739 became rector of Stepington, Huntingdonshire. The patron, the Duke of Bedford, also appointing him one of his chaplains. lieutenant was also to Sherlock"s influence he owed a prebend in Salisbury Cathedral, on receiving which he moved from London to Bristol, where he died on 21 December 1774.
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Roman Catholic Protestant Christianity