Background
He was born at Bath to the Reverend Thomas Broadhurst and Frances Whittaker.
He was born at Bath to the Reverend Thomas Broadhurst and Frances Whittaker.
He studied at the University of Cambridge and in 1837 became a barrister.
Later that year he migrated to New South Wales, and soon had a successful legal practice. He took silk in 1858. Broadhurst died after some years of ill health in Sydney in 1883.
He was a non-elective member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1851 to 1856, and a member of the reconstituted Council from 1856 to 1861.
