OBITUAR.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1258, 13 October 1911, Page 4

OBITUAR.

fr MR. HENRY BROADHURST. By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright London, October 11. Tho death is announced of Mr. Henrj Broadhurst, On his retirement from public life in 1908 Henry Broadhurst was tho oldest and most honoured representative of Labour io tho House of Commons. Ho was bom iu Oxfordshire scventy-ouo years ago, and becamo a stonemason by trade. In 1875 ho was elected secretary of tho Labour Representation League, and in 1880 he was elected to the House of Commons as member for Sloke-upon-Trcnt. From that time until his retirement in 190G, ho pat continuously as a member of the House of Commons with the exception of an intcrtal of two years from 1892 to 1894. In lfcC he hold office as Tinder-Secretary for fne Home Office in Mr. Gladstones shortlived Ministry of 18SG. Writing iu "M.A.P." at the time of his retirement, Mr. T. P. O'Connor said: "It was characteristic of the force and strength as well os shrewdness of the man that at a timo when the Labour candidate was a much rarer individual than he is to-day, Broadhurst was able to get himself chosen as candidate for ftoko by both the Liberal and the Labour forces. In time he reached the high position of Under-Secretary for Hie Homo Department, and in that office ho did very good work. Tt was when ho had thus attained to far higher success than ho had over ventured Io anticipate that Fortune inflicted upon him the heavy blow of a permanent' malady. This robust block of ft man suddenly began to grow very thin, tho massive face wa;i reduced fci little more than half its siw>, he had to wear a beard in order to hide the ravages of disease. It was discovered that lie was attacked by diabetes—that very common malady of middle aso. If he had been a weaker man ho would have yielded io tho insidious enemy, lost bona and courage, and simply awaited death. But li.' called to his aid that fine courage, which is at the root of the English character, coiiMilltvl competent doctors,. and scon, by adopting a rigid dietary, was nblo to keep down the disease; and,: though he was a changed man, ho found himself able to do the work of half a dr.znn. man-**