BROADHEAD, Theodore Henry (1767-1820), of Holly Grove, Windsor, Berks.

Broadhead’s ancestral family estate was at Monk Bretton, Yorkshire, but he had resided at Windsor since 1807.1 A. Macnaghten, Windsor and Eton in Georgian Times, 58. Prior to 1820 he was a ministerialist, whose connection with George Canning* had brought hopes of the baronetcy coveted by his father and even, so his son later claimed, a promise of a peerage.2 Harewood mss, Canning to wife, 14 July 1814; Add. 44438, f. 198. After a two-year absence from the House, at the 1820 general election he was returned for Yarmouth on the interest of Sir Leonard Thomas Worsley Holmes*, who generally accommodated paying guests on government recommendation. No trace of parliamentary activity has been found, and in December 1820 he died at his London residence in Berkeley Square, his ambitions for honours unfulfilled.3 Gent. Mag. (1820), ii. 638. By his will, dated 9 July 1817, he left his entire estate to his wife, who was named as sole executrix and guardian of their children. His personalty was sworn under £80,000.4 PROB 11/1638/4; IR26/849/11. He was replaced at Yarmouth by his eldest son Thomas Henry Lavington Broadhead.