Broome, Ralph

Capt Broome of Hampstead proposed Socy for Const Info 11.5.1792 by John Farnell Tuffin 2nded William Sharpe. Capt Broome on committee of Revolution Society 4.11.1791. Probably son of Ralph Broom and Mary bapt 28.2.1743 at Clyffe Pypard, Wilts. Ralph Broome captain in the service of the East India Company in Bengal, Judge Advocate in India, and Persian translator to the army, author of poetical satires, the Letters of Simkin the Second, (published 1788-1796) primarily on the trial of Warren Hastings DNB 1732-1818 (on Hastings' side), as well as prose works including observations on Paine and strictures on Burke. RB bach of Hornchurch Essex married at St Geo the Martyr 24.2.1790 Lucy Jefferys sp, their son Ralph Jeffries Broome was born 16.2.1791 and bapt 24.2.1792 at St John Hampstead. His wife and two children died before he married 2ndly 1.3.1798 by lic at St Marylebone Charlotte Ann (1761-1838) widow of Clement Francis, and sister of Fanny Burney DNB 1752-1840. Their son Ralph was bapt 5.9.1801 at Street, Sussex and died in 1817.  Broome's will dated 2.1.1802, of Buxton Wilts, now at Bath, was proved 10.4.1805 and mentioned his wife Charlotte Anne, his son Ralph, his daughter Mariam Broome (natural child by an Indian woman of high rank born c.1781 see Hemlow, Burney's Letters & Journals  4, 123), and Amelia Margaret Weaver Broome now living at Exmouth (perhaps another natural child bapt St Marylebone 28.11.1802 Margt. Amelia of Ralph Broom & Mary Ann). According to Fanny Burney, Broome thought too highly of himself and Charlotte's marriage suffered from his fits of irrational rage. Charlotte's father Dr Charles Burney DNB 1726-1814 had opposed the marriage on the grounds that Broome was "a Democrat, even a Jacobin"