Urban Huttleston Broughton, 1st Baron Fairhaven

Who was Urban Huttleston Broughton, 1st Baron Fairhaven?

Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Baron Fairhaven was a British nobleman, born at Fairhaven, Massachusetts in the United States, who was usually known as Huttleston Broughton.

He was the son of Urban Hanlon Broughton, who made a fortune in the United States around the turn of the twentieth century from mining, railways, and sewer systems. His mother was Cara Leland Rogers Broughton, an American heiress and daughter of Abbie Gifford Rogers and Henry Huttleston Rogers, one of the world's wealthiest men.

Educated in America and at Harrow, Huttleston Broughton served in the 1st Life Guards during World War I, and, upon his father's death in 1929, he was granted the barony, named for his mother's beloved hometown, that had been destined for his father. He did not marry, and, in 1961, a second barony was conferred on him, with the remainder to his brother, Henry Rogers Broughton.

The Broughton brothers bought the Anglesey Abbey estate in 1926 because its position, conveniently close to Newmarket, where they owned the Barton Stud, enabled them to indulge their interest in horseracing, while the surrounding countryside provided very good partridge shooting.