Career
In 1840 in Leicester, he formed the company Broadbents Limited, a busy which serviced builders" merchants and roofing contractors. He was also associated with Broadbent and Hawley, stone and marble masons and gravestone cutters. Broadbent built his home, Victoria House, in 1861 in Humberstone.
The large estate included a mansion house, stables, coach house, winery, orchard, conservatories and outbuildings.
Three years after his death, the property was purchased by the Leicester Corporation to establish the Leicester Borough Asylum, which became the Towers Hospital.
