Ronald Broadhurst Explained

Ronald Broadhurst
Office:Deputy Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly
Term Start:1973
Term End:1974
Predecessor:Position created
Successor:Position abolished
Office1:Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly
for South Down
Term Start1:28 June 1973
Term End1:1974
Predecessor1:Assembly established
Successor1:Assembly abolished
Birth Date:1906
Death Date:1976
Party:Ulster Unionist Party

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

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.http://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/csd.htm

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.

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