Alexander Meyrick Broadley

Vanity Fair caricature, 1889

Alexander Meyrick Broadley (19 July 1847 – 16 April 1916) was a British historian, author, and barrister. He is best known for being the defense lawyer for Ahmed Orabi after the failure of the Urabi Revolt.

His father, also named Alexander, was vicar of Bradpole, in Dorset, England. He entered Lincoln's Inn as a law student in 1866 and was called to the bar in 1869. He lived in Tunis for a number of years and worked as a lawyer there within the French legal system. He later lived in Belgium for a time.

In later life he returned to Bradpole and built a large house called "The Knapp" (as of 1998, it still existed and had been converted into a nursing home). He collected a large number of books, some of which he "grangerized" by adding additional illustrations, and also became a prolific author of books on historical topics.^[1]

He never married.

Partial bibliography

• How we defended Arábi and his friends: a story of Egypt and the Egyptians (second ed.). London: Chapman and Hall. 1884. 
• Napoleon and the Invasion of England: The Story of the Great Terror. 1908.  Co-authored with Harold Felix Baker Wheeler
• Napoleon in caricature 1795-1821. London: John Lane. 1911. 
• The history of Freemasonry in the District of Malta. London: George Kenning. 1880. 

References

External links

• "Alexander Meyrick Broadley biography". English Freemasonry on the Island of Malta. Retrieved 2011-03-16. 
•  Foster, Joseph (1885). "Broadley, Alexander Meyrick". Men-at-the-Bar (second ed.). London: Hazell, Watson, and Viney. p. 56.