Ronald Broadhurst

Brigadier Ronald Joseph Callender Broadhurst (1906–1976) was a Northern Irish unionist politician.

Ronald Broadhurst
Deputy Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly
In office 1973–1974
Preceded by	Position created
Succeeded by	Position abolished
Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for South Down
In office 28 June 1973 – 1974
Preceded by	Assembly established
Succeeded by	Assembly abolished
Personal details
Born	1906
Died	1976
Political party	Ulster Unionist Party

Background

In the 1973 Northern Ireland Assembly election, he was the last of seven MPAs elected in the South Down constituency, as a pro-Sunningdale candidate. He became the Deputy Speaker of the Assembly.

Also in 1973, Broadhurst appeared on Ulster Television demanding that the New University of Ulster (now the University of Ulster at Coleraine) be closed down, a request he also made in the Assembly, to no effect. As a supporter of Brian Faulkner, he followed Faulkner into the newly formed Unionist Party of Northern Ireland in 1974 and stood for the party in South Down in the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention election of 1975 but failed to get elected.[1]

An Arabist, in 1952 he authored a translation of The Travels of Ibn Jubayr from Arabic.

His papers are held in the Public Records Office of Northern Ireland in Belfast and also in St Antony's College, Oxford.

References

• "Brig. Ronald Broadhurst". The Daily Telegraph. 7 January 1987. p. 12.