Henry Braddon

Sir Henry Yule Braddon (27 April 1863 – 8 September 1955) was an Australian diplomat, businessman, and rugby union player who played for Otago, New South Wales and New Zealand.

Early life and education Henry Yule Braddon was born on 27 April 1863 in Calcutta, India, to Alice Smith and (Sir) Edward Braddon, later Premier of Tasmania (1894–1899). He was educated in Germany, France, and Dulwich College, England, before his family emigrated to Australia in 1878, where he completed his education at Church of England Grammar School, Launceston. and is recognised as an Otago's first All Black despite playing in Invercargill at the time of his selection. Braddon later played for New South Wales from 1888 until 1892. Following the death of Henry Roberts in 1949, Braddon was the oldest living All Black.

Career On leaving school Braddon worked for the Commercial Bank of Tasmania.

Other activities In July 1936, the British-American Cooperation Movement for World Peace was founded in Sydney by two Australian World War I veterans, Brigadier H. A. Goddard and Sir Ernest Keith White, and the movement was led by Braddon. Braddon addressed a campaign launch in Brisbane in August of that year, citing support from the Rotary International, chambers of commerce, and other clubs. He later went to Melbourne to campaign for the movement there. This movement was revived as the Australian American Association by Keith Murdoch in 1941.

Honours and death Braddon was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1920.

Braddon died in the Sydney suburb of Woollahra in 1955.