Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of Robert John Porcher Broughton, M.A., Cambridge, Solicitor by Royal Appointment to the Coldstream Guards, born 11th July 1816 in Farnham, Surrey (son of Robert Edwards Broughton, 1792 and Caroline Louisa Chamier, 1790-1873) and his wife Louisa Diane Broughton (nee Heaton-Ellis, married 3rd June 1847 in St. Marylebone), born 5th May 1822 in Marylebone, Middlesex (daughter of Charles Arthur Hill Heaton-Ellis, 1789-1865 and Emma Louisa Stracey, 1801-1880). Ernest Chamier was born on the 3rd June 1858 in Marylebone, his siblings were, Frederic Robert, a schoolboy, born 29th May 1848, Howard William, a schoolboy, born 1851 and Herbert Montague, born 15th January 1860, all his siblings were born in Marylebone, in April 1861 the family home was at 10, Dorset Square, Marylebone. Ernest’s mother died in the October quarter of 1870 in Marylebone, aged 48. In April 1871 Ernest was absent from the family home at 10, Dorset Square, Marylebone, residing there was his father, a solicitor and his siblings, Howard, Constance Mary, born 28th July 1854 and Charles Edward born in the July quarter of 1861, the latter two siblings were both born in Marylebone, meanwhile Ernest, a schoolboy was residing as a boarder at Mrs. Smallwood’s Young Gentlemen’s School, St. John Hampstead, Hampstead, Middlesex. In April 1881 Ernest remained absent from the family home at 10, Dorset Square, Marylebone, residing there was his widowed father, a solicitor and his siblings, Constance and Herbert, a law student. In April 1911 Ernest was a Lieutenant Colonel in the Army and was residing at Callipers Hill, Sarratt, Hertfordshire together with his wife Jane Henrietta Bloomfield Broughton (nee King-Keane, married on the 2nd February 1888 in St. Peter’s Church, Brighton, Sussex), born 1857 in County Galway, Ireland (daughter of Major Benjamin Bloomfield Keane, Ceylon Rifles and Rebecca Kate Dennis), this was the family home of his widowed father, now a retired solicitor. After 1911, Ernest and his wife had resided at the Cedar, Castle Donington, Leicestershire and latterly at “Callipars,” Dorset Rd., Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex.
Ernest was educated at Harrow and Sandhurst and entered the Army as a Sub Lieutenant in the 6th Foot in November 1876, and was transferred to the 65th (2nd North Riding) Foot in January 1878, and served with them in India. In 1884 his Regiment was ordered home, but were disembarked at Suakim, and took part in the Soudan Campaign, including the Battles of El Teb and Tamai. He got his Company in 1885 and field rank in 1894 when he was posted to the 2nd Battalion York & Lancaster Regiment, (the old 84th) in South Africa and subsequently served in Mauretius and India till 1901, when he retired. Immediately on his arrival home he joined the 3rd Battalion (Doncaster Militia) of his old Regiment as a Captain. Three months later he was appointed Major for service in the South African War, and at the close of that campaign reverted to a Company Command. In 1908 he was again promoted to field rank, thus gaining the unusual distinction of being three times a Major. Three months later he received the honorary rank of Lieutenant Colonel, and on the 20th April, 1909, was promoted to substantive rank to Command the 3rd York & Lancaster Rgeiment, Special Reserve, and had two extensions of service. He died in the Armstrong College Military Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, 17th December 1914, while in Command of his Regiment then on East coast defence duty. He had been editor of the Regimental Journal “The Tiger and the Rose,” for over 25 years.