Brigadier Ronald Joseph Callender Broadhurst (1906–1976) was a Unionist politician in Northern Ireland. In the

1973 Northern Ireland Assembly election Events January * January 1 - The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark enter the European Economic Community, which later becomes the European Union. * January 15 – Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, U.S. P ...

, he was the last of seven MPAs elected in the South Down

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, as a pro- Sunningdale candidate. He became the Deputy Speaker of the

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. 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

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election of 1975 but failed to get electe

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

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* 1906 births 1976 deaths British radio personalities Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly 1973–1974 North Irish Horse officers Ulster Unionist Party politicians Unionist Party of Northern Ireland politicians {{NorthernIreland-politician-stub