Sir Frederick Napier Broome

After four years as a widow, MAB married (at Prees in Shropshire) Frederick Napier Broome , a clergyman's son who made his living as a sheep farmer in New Zealand.

MAB and her new husband landed in Melbourne, Australia, after fifty-seven days out of sight of land: a very quick [voyage] for the immense distance traversed, sometimes under canvas, but generally steaming.

An unprecedented fall of snow began, which wiped out sheep ranchers on the Canterbury Plains in New Zealand, MAB and her second husband among them. Half a million sheep perished in the snow and...

After the collapse of their sheep ranch, MAB and her second husband set sail from Lyttelton in New Zealand for England. There they heard many variants on we told you so from friends...

The Edinburgh Castle, the ship carrying MAB with her two babies and their nurse to join her husband in Natal, dropped anchor at Cape Town after their sea voyage.

MAB came ashore at the harbour of Port Louis on Mauritius (where her husband was colonial secretary) after a journey of a couple of months from England.

Despite the hurricane season, MAB and her husband made a three-day voyage in H. M. S. Euryalus from Mauritius to the smaller island of Rodrigues, to investigate tales that a failed rice crop had...

After stopping at several little ports, exhausted and seasick but appreciating their enthusiastic welcome everywhere, MAB and her husband the Governor arrived at Perth in Western Australia.

Sir Frederick Napier Broome died in a London nursing home aged fifty-four, of massive infection caused by diabetes. His wife MAB (now at last Lady Broome) was in constant, agonised attendance, just as when her...

The Times opened an extraordinary collaboration by MAB and her husband Frederick Broome : in four nights and three days they produced a series of researched articles on pamphlets from the Franco-Prussian War.

MAB published her first book of travel, Station Life in New Zealand (the station being the sheep farm run by her husband and herself).

Brought up in the Church of England , she drew deeply on her religious faith at such terrible times as that in India when her first husband died, or that in New Zealand when...

MAB and her husband, Frederick Broome , called their cottage at the sheep station, from their own name, Broomielaw. It stood in the Malvern Hills on the banks of the Selwyn River, attached...

Before leaving Western Australia, Sir Frederick Napier Broome had already developed diabetes. It was finally diagnosed in mid-1896, by which time he was rapidly deteriorating. Diagnosis brought no hope of cure. By the time he...

Back in London with her second husband in 1869, MAB embarked on a career in journalism, whose successful launch she attributed to the kindness of friends: George Grove , editor of Macmillan's Magazine (whom...