Henry Brougham (landowner)

Henry Brougham, FRSE (18 June 1742 – 13 February 1810) was an English landowner and lawyer who owned extensive estates in Westmorland.

He was born at Scales Hall, Cumberland, on 18 June 1742, the son of Henry Brougham (d. 1782), Steward to the Duke of Norfolk, and Mary Freeman (1714–1807).

[2] Educated at Eton College, Brougham then trained as a lawyer at Gray's Inn from 1765,[3] before marrying and moving to Edinburgh.

21, on the north side of St Andrew Square, in what was then, a brand new Georgian townhouse and it is here that he established himself in the Scots legal scene.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1784, one of his proposers being his father-in-law, William Robertson.