Edward Broughton
(1803-1831)
English convict and murderer
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Edward Broughton (1803 – 5 August 1831) was an English convict who was transported to Van Diemen's Land for fourteen years for house-breaking. He escaped from Sarah Island in Macquarie Harbour with four other convicts and he later confessed to murdering three of his companions and resorting to cannibalism. He and the other survivor Matthew MacAvoy were hanged in Hobart for their crimes.
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1803
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5 August 1831 (aged 28)
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