Arthur Frederick Broadbridge

Arthur Frederick Broadbridge (15 February 1915 – 29 March 2009) was a Canadian diplomat.

Born in Elham, England, Broadbridge's family emigrated to rural Saskatchewan in 1920. In 1932 Broadbridge trained for one year before starting to work as a teacher at Bradgate School, Newpark School and Hillside School in Invermay and Rosetown. He worked briefly as an archivist for the Saskatchewan Archives Board before taking a civil service exam and joining the foreign service in 1949. Broadbridge was posted to Chicago, Washington, D.C., Cairo, and Berlin before being appointed concurrently as High Commissioner to Malawi and Zambia then later as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Mozambique. His terms for these posts all ended concurrently.

In 1977 Broadbridge retired from foreign service and returned his family to Canada. His wife, who had been ill, died soon after their return.

In his retirement, Broadbridge published two books: The Church of St. Peter, Cobourg, Ontario, 1867–1978, and a memoir, Early Days.

In 1981 he remarried; his second wife was Ada Uren, an old friend who had recently been widowed. Uren died in 2004 and Broadbridge in 2009.