| Honorific-Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
| The Lord Brougham and Vaux | |
| Office: | Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal |
| Term Start: | 7 May 1868 |
| Term End: | 3 January 1886 Hereditary peerage |
| Predecessor: | The 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux |
| Successor: | The 3rd Baron Brougham and Vaux |
| Office9: | Member of Parliament for Southwark |
| Term Start9: | 1 June 1831 |
| Term End9: | 6 February 1835 |
| Predecessor9: | Sir Robert Wilson |
| Successor9: | Daniel Whittle Harvey |
| Birth Date: | 26 September 1795 |
| Party: | Liberal Whig |
| Alma Mater: | Lincoln's Inn |
| Children: | 6 |
| Parents: | Henry Brougham Eleanor Syme |
William Brougham, 2nd Baron Brougham and Vaux (26 September 1795 – 3 January 1886), known as William Brougham until 1868, was a British barrister and Whig politician.
Brougham was the youngest son of Henry Brougham and Eleanor Syme, daughter of the Reverend James Syme. Lord Chancellor Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, was his elder brother. He was educated at Edinburgh High School and Jesus College, Cambridge, and was called to the Bar, Lincoln's Inn, in 1823.
Brougham was appointed a Master in Chancery in 1831, which he remained until the following year. In 1831 he was also returned to Parliament for Southwark, a seat he held until 1835.[1] He was also lieutenant-colonel in the Cumberland Volunteers and served as a Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace for Cumberland. In 1868 he succeeded his elder brother as second Baron Brougham and Vaux according to a special remainder in the letters patent, and was able to take a seat in the House of Lords.
Lord Brougham and Vaux married Emily Frances, daughter of Sir Charles William Taylor, 1st Baronet, in 1834. They had three sons and three daughters. She died in April 1884. Lord Brougham and Vaux survived her by two years and died in January, 1886, aged 90, at Brougham Hall, a gothic revival mansion, the building of which was largely overseen by William before he succeeded Henry as Baron Brougham.[2] He was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son, Henry.
| Escutcheon: | Gules a chevron between three lucies hauriant Argent. |
| Crest: | A dexter arm in armour embowed Proper the hand holding a lucy fessewise Argent and charged on the elbow with a rose Gules. |
| Supporters: | Dexter a lion Vert armed and langued Gules gorged with a vaux collar checky Or and of the second, sinister a stag Argent attired and unguled Or holding in the mouth a rose Gules barbed and seeded Vert. |
| Motto: | Pro Rege Lege Grege (For The King The Law and the People)[3] |