William Harrison-Broadley

Harrison-Broadley of Ripon was born in August 1820 and educated at Rugby School and Brasenose College Oxford. He inherited Welton House from his mother's family and was High Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1867. He was a Conservative MP from 1868 to 1885, and Colonel Commandant of the Yorkshire Hussars from 1890 to 1893. He was never married and died in 1896 at the age of 76. The painting shows him as a young officer with the red shako that was replaced by the fur busby in 1856.