Urban Hanlon Broughton (1857-1929)
M.P., Civil Engineer, of 37 Grosvenor Square, Mayfair & "Park Close" near Windsor
He was born England and after studying in Wrexham he graduated from the University of London, winning the Miller Prize awarded by the Institution of Civil Engineers. He gained an expertise in the Shone sewer system which took him to Massachusetts to manage its installation in Fairhaven, home-town of the millionaire industrialist Henry Huttleston Rogers. In 1895, he had the good fortune to marry one of Rogers' daughters, Cara, and they would have two sons. For the next 25-years they lived in America, mainly in Chicago, where he became president/director of a variety of engineering projects, securing his own fortune. In 1912, they returned to England, where he entered politics and was elected as a Conservative Member of Parliament from 1915 to 1918. They lived between their townhouse in Mayfair and "Park Close" near Windsor. They were both active in supporting Britain during WWI, but he died when he was about to be elevated to the peerage so his wife was created Lady Fairhaven in her own right, and their eldest son, Huttleston, became the first Baron Fairhaven.
