{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Use British English|date=September 2016}} '''Walter Broadbent''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FRCP}} (4 August 1868 – 17 October 1951) was an English physician remembered for describing the Broadbent sign of constrictive pericarditis.<ref>Barry G. Firkin, Judith A. Whitworth. ''Dictionary of Medical Eponyms''. Informa Health Care, 2001, page 47. {{ISBN|978-1-85070-333-4}}.</ref><ref name="timesobit">{{cite news |title= Obituary: Dr. W. Broadbent – Authority on Heart and Lungs|work=The Times |location=London |date= 20 October 1951 | page= 8 }}</ref>

== Biography == Walter Broadbent was born in London in 1868, the son of Sir William Broadbent. He was educated at Harrow School, Trinity College, Cambridge and St Mary's Hospital, London.<ref>{{acad|id=BRDT886W|name=Broadbent, Walter}}</ref> He graduated in 1893. His first paper, published in 1895, described the Broadbent sign.

He was consulting physician to the Royal Sussex County Hospital, to the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children, and to the Lady Chichester Hospital for Nervous Diseases at Hove.<ref name="timesobit"/>

In 1896, he married Edith, daughter of John Monroe, justice of the High Court of Justice in Ireland. They had two sons and two daughters. His grandson, George Walter Broadbent, inherited the Broadbent baronetcy as the 4th Baronet.<ref name="burke">{{cite book |title= Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood|publisher=Burke's Peerage & Gentry |editor= Mosley, Charles |editor-link=Charles Mosley (genealogist) |edition=107 |year= 2003 |page= 511|ref=Burke |isbn=0-9711966-2-1}}</ref>

Broadbent died at Henfield, Sussex, at age 83.<ref name="timesobit"/>

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