Broadhurst, Henry, 1840-1911
Variant namesBorn in 1840; educated at Littlemore Village School, Oxfordshire; worked in a blacksmith's shop, then as a stonemason until 1872; Secretary, Labour Representative League, 1875; Secretary, Parliamentary Committee of the Trades Union Congress, 1875-1890; MP for Stoke-on-Trent, 1880-1885, Bordesley, 1885-1886, Nottingham, 1886-1892, and Leicester, 1894-1906; Under-Secretary of State, Home Department, 1886; served on Royal Commissions, including Reformatory and Industrial Schools, Housing of the Working Classes, and the Condition of the Aged Poor; offered and refused Inspectorship of Factories and Workshops, 1882, and the Inspectorship of Canal Boats, 1884; JP and Alderman, County of Norfolk; Poor Law Guardian, Erpingham Union; member of Cromer Urban District Council; Chairman, Lifeboat Committee; founder of Tooting Common Club; founder of the Golf Links, Cromer and Sheringham, Norfolk; died 1911. Publications: Henry Broadhurst, M.P: the story of his life from a stonemason's bench to the Treasury bench told by himself (Hutchinson & Co., London, 1901); Handy book on household enfranchisement (1885).
From the guide to the BROADHURST, Rt Hon Henry, 1840-1911, MP, 1873-1910, (British Library of Political and Economic Science)
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associatedWith | Carrington, Charles Robert, Wynn-, 1843-1928, 3rd Baron Carrington and 1st Marquess of Lincolnshire, politician | person |
associatedWith | Chamberlain, Joseph, 1836-1914 | person |
associatedWith | Dilke, Sir, Charles Wentworth, 1843-1911, 2nd Baronet, politician and author | person |
associatedWith | Duke, John, 1820-1894, 1st Baron Coleridge, Lord Chief Justice of England | person |
associatedWith | Gladstone, William Ewart, 1809-1898 | person |
associatedWith | Harcourt, Sir, William George Granville Venables, Vernon-, 1827-1904 | person |
associatedWith | James, Henry, 1828-1911, 1st Baron James of Hereford, lawyer and statesman | person |
associatedWith | Knollys, Francis, 1837-1924, 1st Viscount Knollys, Private Secretary to King Edward VII | person |
associatedWith | Powell, George Herbert Croxden, 1856-1924 | person |
associatedWith | Primrose, Archibald Philip, 1847-1929, 5th Earl of Rosebery, statesman and author | person |
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Birth 1840-04-13
Death 1911-10-11