Samuel Daniel Broughton

Samuel Daniel Broughton (1787 to 1837) was an English army surgeon. Born in Bristol in July 1787, the son of a clergyman, he studied at St George's Hospital in London and became assistant-surgeon of the Dorset militia. In October 1812 he was appointed assistant-surgeon of the 2nd Life Guards and, with temporary rank as an additional surgeon, took medical charge of the regiment's service squadrons in the Peninsular War and the south of France; he was also with the regiment at Waterloo. He became the regiment's surgeon in 1821 and, living in London, turned to scientific study, becoming a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1830 and of the Geological Society. He published Letters from Portugal, Spain, and France in 1815, wrote papers on physiological research, and with a barrister gave lectures on forensic medicine and toxicology. After a fall injured his leg in 1836, the ankle joint became diseased and the surgeon Liston amputated it; Broughton died ten days later, on 20 August 1837, and was buried at Kensal Green.