THE BROME-WALTON FAMILY. 
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From the author of “ England’s Artillerymen” (p. 19) we learn that 
General Brome was of short stature, very attentive to duty, but very 
reserved, especially towards the younger officers who had emerged from 
the Academy (probably from a sense of his own entry into the service, 
of which he was justly and ostentatiously proud) : the same author 
also quotes the anecdote (from Benson, Brome’s contemporary), that 
on one occasion, while Commandant, General Brome, in returning the 
salute by the guard of “ present arms,” went up in great displeasure 
to the drummer who had beat two ruffles carelessly, upbraiding him 
with his inefficiency, dismounted, and passing the suspending belt over 
his own neck began to rattle ruffles, exclaiming—“ There, you young 
dog, that’s the way I used to beat the drum when I was a drummer.” 
JOSEPH WALTON. 
The portraits of Lieutenant-General Joseph Brome , and of his dis¬ 
tinguished son, Lieutenant-General Joseph Walton , have been procured, 
by kind permission of Lieutenant-General Milman, C.B., Major of the 
Tower of London, who holds the original paintings. For the history 
of Joseph Walton, see Chapter IY. 
THOMAS WALTON. 
The second son of Joseph Brome entered the Ordnance Department 
in 1762 as “Clerk of Stores” with the Expedition to Portugal in 1762 
under Forbes Macbean—a position which is now designated by the 
more imposing title of “Assistant-Commissary-General of Ordnance 
and subsequently in the war of American Independence, under Brig.- 
General Cleaveland, K.A., as senior Ordnance Officer. 
On return to England he retired on half-pay, and devoted himself 
entirely to the experimental sciences and to mathematics applied to 
gunnery, in which he had already established a name by his scien¬ 
tific treatises, and contributions to the Philosophical Magazine; and 
he was given a paid sinecure in the Warren as “Keeper of the 
Scientific Instruments”—a post which he retained, under the Inspector 
of Artillery, until his death in 1830, in which year Major-General 
TOSir Alexander Dickson was Inspector of Artillery. The volume of 
Walton’s “ Gunnery Tables ,” and details of his services in Portugal 
and as Scientific Instrument Keeper are preserved with the “ Dickson 
MSB.” 
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