Ronald Broadhurst

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Brigadier Ronald J C Broadhurst (1906 - 1976) was a Unionist politician.

In the Northern Ireland Assembly election, 1973, 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 UTV demanding that the New University of Ulster be closed down, a request he also made in the Assembly, to no effect.

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