Henry Broadwood

{{Short description|British politician (died 1878)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Henry Broadwood | honorific_suffix = | image = | alt = | caption = | office = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] for [[Bridgwater (UK Parliament constituency)|Bridgwater]] | term_start = 16 May 1837 | term_end = 7 July 1852 | predecessor = [[John Temple Leader]] [[Charles Kemeys-Tynte (1778-1860)|Charles Kemeys-Tynte I]] | successor = [[Charles Kemeys-Tynte (1800-1882)|Charles Kemeys-Tynte II]] [[Brent Follett]] | alongside = [[Charles Kemeys-Tynte (1800-1882)|Charles Kemeys-Tynte II]] ([[1847 United Kingdom general election|1847]]–[[1852 United Kingdom general election|1852]]) [[Thomas Seaton Forman]] ([[1841 United Kingdom general election|1841]]–[[1847 United Kingdom general election|1847]]) [[Philip Courtenay (died 1841)|Philip Courtenay]] ([[1837 United Kingdom general election|Aug. 1837]]–[[1841 United Kingdom general election|1841]]) [[Charles Kemeys-Tynte (1778-1860)|Charles Kemeys-Tynte I]] ([[1837 Bridgwater by-election|May. 1837]]–[[1837 United Kingdom general election|Aug. 1837]]) | birth_date = 8 August 1795 | birth_place = | death_date = {{death year and age|1878|1795}} | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | alma_mater = | birth_name = | party = [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] | other_party = | parents = | spouse = | children = }}

'''Henry Broadwood''' (8 August 1795 or 1793 – 1878)<ref>Collins, 92 has 1793; Rayment 1795</ref><ref name="leighrayment">{{cite web |last1=Rayment |first1=Leigh |title=The House of Commons: Constituencies beginning with "B" |url=http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Bcommons5.htm |website=Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page |accessdate=28 October 2018 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20181028211113/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Bcommons5.htm |archivedate=28 October 2018 |url-status=usurped |date=30 August 2018 }}</ref> was a [[Great Britain|British]] [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] politician.<ref name="stookssmith">{{cite book |last1=Stooks Smith |first1=Henry |title=The Parliaments of England, from 1st George I., to the Present Time. Vol II: Oxfordshire to Wales Inclusive |date=1845 |publisher=Simpkin, Marshall, & Co. |location=London |page=30 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HacQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA30 |via=[[Google Books]] |accessdate=28 October 2018}}</ref>

He was a younger son of [[John Broadwood]] (by his second wife) and came from the famous piano-making family who owned [[John Broadwood & Sons]], and supplied [[Beethoven]] with his favourite piano. He studied at [[Emmanuel College, Cambridge]] from 1813.<ref name="Collins, 92">Collins, 92</ref> He became a [[Gentleman of the Privy Chamber]] to [[King George IV]] in 1826, continuing under [[William IV]] after 1830.<ref name="Collins, 92"/>

After unsuccessfully contesting the [[1835 United Kingdom general election|1835 general election]] for [[Bridgwater (UK Parliament constituency)|Bridgwater]], Broadwood became Conservative [[Member of Parliament]] (MP) for the same seat at a [[1837 Bridgwater by-election|by-election in 1837]]—caused by the resignation of [[John Temple Leader]]. He then held the seat until [[1852 United Kingdom general election|1852]] when he did not seek re-election.<ref name="stookssmith"/><ref name="craig1832">{{cite book|editor1-last=Craig|editor1-first=F. W. S.|editor-link=F. W. S. Craig|title=British Parliamentary Election Results 1832–1885|date=1977|publisher=Macmillan Press|location=London|isbn=978-1-349-02349-3|edition=1st|page=60}}</ref>

On 19 May 1840 he married Fanny Lowther (1818–1890) at [[Saint Martin in the Fields]], a few hundred yards from the homes of both. She was the "natural" (illegitimate) daughter of the unmarried Viscount Lowther, the future [[William Lowther, 2nd Earl of Lonsdale]], also a Tory MP, who had been a friend of George IV. By a later liaison of her mother with Dr [[Charles Lewis Meryon]], Fanny Lowther was the half-sister of the French artist [[Charles Meryon]] who she helped support to the end of his life. She was living with her father at 15 [[Carlton House Terrace]] at her marriage, and received a [[dowry]] of £10,000.<ref name="Collins, 92"/> After Lowther's death in 1872 Fanny was left £125,000.<ref>Collins, 268</ref>

They had two sons and a daughter, Mary, who died young (1851–66). The elder son was Arthur Broadwood (1849–1927), who retired from the army as a colonel in 1906 and who had five children. His brother was Alfred Broadwood (1856–1909).<ref>Collins, 270</ref>

Broadwood had been left £20,000 and a country house in Essex at his father's death in 1812. Most of this was invested by his trustees in a partnership in a Lion Brewery in London (apparently not the [[Lion Brewery Co]] in [[Lambeth]]). But the business, perhaps neglected by Broadwood, was not a success,<ref name="Collins, 92"/> and in 1848 his "fortune collapsed", and for the rest of his life he lived in [[Tunbridge Wells]], though remaining an MP until 1852.<ref>Collins, 269</ref>

==Notes== {{Reflist}}

==References== *Collins, Roger, ''Charles Meryon: A Life'', 1999, Garton & Company, {{ISBN|0906030358}}, 9780906030356

==External links== * {{Hansard-contribs | mr-henry-broadwood | Mr Henry Broadwood }}

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