Ronald Broadhurst
Ronald Broadhurst | |
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| Deputy Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for South Down | |
| In office 28 June 1973 – 1974 | |
| Preceded by | Assembly established |
| Succeeded by | Assembly abolished |
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| Born | 1906 |
| Died | 1976 |
| Political party | Ulster Unionist Party |
Brigadier Ronald Joseph Callender Broadhurst (1906–1976) was a Northern Irish unionist politician.
Background
In the
Assembly
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Also in 1973, Broadhurst appeared on
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.
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