28 Facts About Arthur Broome

Arthur MacLoughlin Broome was an English clergyman and campaigner for animal welfare.

Arthur Broome was one of a group of creators of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in 1824.

Arthur Broome held posts at various churches in London, Essex, and Kent, and supported an appeal for earthquake relief in Syria.

Arthur Broome wrote about animal theology and about two 17th-century English clergy.

Arthur Broome was guarantor for the RSPCA's debts, which led to his financial ruin and in April 1826 he was sent to a debtors' prison.

Arthur Broome applied to the Bishop of London for ordination in the Church of England and on 21 November 1802 was ordained by Bishop Beilby Porteus as a deacon.

Arthur Broome remained in Cliffe until he was appointed as a stipendiary curate to St Mary's Church, Bromley St Leonard's on 23 April 1819.

Arthur Broome was active in serving the Bromley parish and he came into contact with people who were labourers employed in the warehouses of the East India Company.

Arthur Broome demonstrated practical care and concern for the victims of a major earthquake that struck Syria and in April 1823 preached a sermon for the purpose of raising funds for victim relief.

Arthur Broome was married to Anna Barne Trollope on 1 May 1817 at St Margaret's Church, Rochester, Kent.

Arthur Broome's grandfather was Rev John Trollope, her great-great-grandfather was the third baronet of Casewick, Sir Thomas Trollope and she was an older cousin of the novelist Anthony Trollope.

In 1815, Arthur Broome compiled a work about two seventeenth century Church of England clergy, Thomas Fuller and Robert South which consisted of selected excerpts from their writings as well as a short biographical profile of Fuller.

Arthur Broome dedicated this book to the law reformer Basil Montagu who was a fan of the writings of Fuller and South.

Arthur Broome edited and annotated an important eighteenth century text in animal theology, A Dissertation on the Duty of Mercy and Sin of Cruelty to Brute Animals, that was written by Rev Humphrey Primatt.

At the time when Arthur Broome was a youth and then a student at university, there was a moral groundswell that was opposed to bull-baiting and that resulted in an unsuccessful attempt by William Johnstone Pulteney on 18 April 1800 to pass legislation through England's Parliament to ban the practice.

Arthur Broome did organise and chair a meeting of sympathisers in November 1822 where it was agreed that a Society should be created and at which Arthur Broome was named its Secretary.

However, the venture was short-lived and Arthur Broome redoubled his efforts two years later with a successful relaunch of the Society.

However she seemed to be unaware that Arthur Broome had in 1822 already personally brought to court some individuals against whom charges of cruelty were heard.

Arthur Broome felt financially secure due to his curate's stipend, the income he received from the sale of his book on Fuller and South, as well as due to an indenture agreement that had been reached between his mother-in-law, his wife and himself that was signed in 1819.

Arthur Broome resigned as perpetual curate in Bromley in February 1824.

Unfortunately for Arthur Broome, he was the guarantor for the Society's debts.

In 1827 Arthur Broome sought to galvanize interest in the Society's work by proposing an annual lecture opposing cruelty in Liverpool.

Arthur Broome remained a member and attended some committee meetings from 1828 through to 1832.

At a committee meeting on 13 January 1832, Arthur Broome was reappointed as a committee member.

In 1837, Arthur Broome was living in Birmingham where he had acted in the role of a minister in "a chapel of ease" but he suffered from consumption and died alone on 16 July 1837.

Arthur Broome was buried on 21 July 1837 in an unmarked pauper's grave in the grounds of St Philip's Cathedral, Birmingham.

Mr Arthur Broome is the founder of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; the very establishment is a proof of, and honour to, the advance of civilisation.

The "Bronze Honour" is named after Arthur Broome and is awarded to either an individual or organisation that has contributed in an outstanding manner to animal welfare.