Kauai County HI Archives Obituaries.....Broadbent, William September 24, 1913
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The Garden Island, Lihue, Kauai, Tues., Sept. 30, 1913
BROADBENT, WILLIAM
WILLIAM BROADBENT HAS PASSED AWAY.  The death of William Broadbent on Wednesday 
last at the age of 75 years removed from our midst a genial and interesting 
personality. Born in Lincolnshire, England, carefully brought up and liberally 
educated by a well-to-do uncle, he entered the East India Service. Those were the 
palmy days of that great company when it administered the fate of an empire and 
controlled the commerce of a hemisphere. He made several trips to India, was there 
through the Indian mutiny, and finally fell a victim to cholera from which he 
narrowly recovered and was invalided home a broken man. A sea voyage being 
recommended, he took the longest one available to New Zealand. Having recovered 
his health he concluded to remain there where he served in the Maori war and 
engaged in mining and other occupations. The last 15 years of his life he spent 
here in Lihue with his son. Of a retiring disposition, he avoided publicity and 
was practically unknown except to a few intimate friends, but by these friends he 
was very highly esteemed as an exceptionally interesting and intelligent man. His 
liberal education, broad experience, and wide range of reading gave him a large 
outlook on life and made him a very enjoyable and instructive companion. Brought 
up in the old school, he clung tenaciously to the old-time doctrines of honor, 
honesty, integrity, courtesy and chivalry, and had no use for the shilly-shally 
compromises of an indifferent morality. But withal he was charitable and kindly to 
the last degree, always thoughtful of others, never censorious, always ready to 
see and appreciate the good. A great sufferer during the last year or two of his 
life, he was unfailingly cheerful and accepted what came to him with an almost 
stoical resignation. 


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