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Up for sale a RARE! "Hull and Selby Railway" Henry Broadley Hand Signed Free Frank Dated 1838.
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enry Broadley (1793–1851) was sat in the House of
Commons from 1837 to 1851. Broadley was a member of the
Broadley family of merchants, bankers and landowners of Hull. He was first
chairman of the Hull and Selby Railway Company from
1836 to 1843. At
the 1837 general
election, Broadley was elected Member of Parliament for East Riding of Yorkshire and held it until his death in
1851.
Broadley bought Welton House,
Yorkshire, in 1848. On his death it passed to his sister, Sophia Broadley, who
died in 1864, and then to his nephew William Harrison-Broadley.
When he also died unmarried it passed to his nephew, Henry Broadley Harrison-Broadley.