Background
Thomas Duer Broughton was son of the Reverend Thomas Broughton, rector of Saint Peter"s, Bristol.
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Education
He was educated at Eton, and went to India in 1795 as a cadet in the East India Company"s Bengal Army.
Career
He became a lieutenant in 1797 and fought at the siege of Seringapatam in 1799. In 1802 he was appointed military resident with the Mahrattas. He published his experiences in a book entitled Letters Written in a Mahratta Camp During the Year 1809, descriptive of the character, manners, domestic habits, and religious ceremonies of the Mahrattas (1813).
Broughton left for England at the end of 1811 and returned to India in August 1815, having been promoted to the rank of major in the meantime He was appointed to the command of Weltevreden on Java, but by the time he arrived on the island in April 1816, preparations were being made to hand it back to the Dutch, so he was returned to Bengal.
In 1822 he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. On his return from India he became honorary secretary of the Royal Asiatic Society, and travelled widely in Britain and southern Europe.
He died in Dorset Square, London, on 16 November 1835.
