Thomas Pennant's Tours in Wales and elsewhere. The local historian A. N. Palmer noted that on reading it "one can easily guess what sort of man Edward Broughton was". Broughton married Wyke on his release. It was his second marriage, his first wife having been Alice Honeywood, sister of Sir Robert Honywood. A son, Edward, was born in 1661; they also had two other sons who died young. The younger Edward died without issue in 1718, and his estates passed to a grandson of Mary Wyke and her first husband. Later life and death Broughton's marriage gave him access to the lucrative revenues of the Wykes' lease on the Gatehouse, and he continued living there during the 1660s. Following the outbreak of the Second Anglo-Dutch War in 1665, Broughton served in the 1st Regiment of Foot Guards, being given command of a company drafted to serve as "sea-soldiers" on board the fleet. Broughton's company embarked on the Royal Katherine on 28 March. At the beginning of June the English fleet, under the Duke of York, attacked the Dutch Republic fleet under Jacob van Wassenaer Obdam in the Battle of Lowestoft. The Royal Katherine was engaged by the Dutch ship Orange, whose crew made several boarding attempts which the Guards successfully repelled; Broughton however was fatally wounded, surviving long enough to die at home on 20 June. He was buried in the north transept of Westminster Abbey. His contemporary David Lloyd wrote that "he valiantly lost his life, scorning to fall though in effect killed, and in his stubborn way blundring out Commands when he could not speak them". Broughton was knighted in, or before, 1664. He also appears to have been created a baronet but died before the award could be formally completed. The title was nevertheless used in legal documents and assumed by his only surviving son Edward (1651–1718), who inherited Broughton's estate at Marchwiel and Abenbury. References Sources 1665 deaths English military personnel killed in action Military personnel of the Anglo-Dutch Wars People from Wrexham County Borough Burials at Westminster Abbey 17th-century Welsh military personnel Royalist military personnel of the English Civil War Grenadier Guards officers