ABSTRACT
Broadbent was born in Birmingham, England in 1926 but identified as Welsh because of strong family connections. At Winchester College he completed both the classics and the physical sciences curricula, but in neither did he really feel at home; his main interest was in flying. He wrote in his autobiographical chapter (Lindzey 1980, p. 43) “One of my earliest memories is an accidental sight of the airship Graf Zeppelin, and I spent all my time as a boy brooding over the exploits of the early pilots.” In 1943 he volunteered for the Royal Air Force hoping to be a pilot and was sent to Cambridge to take a short course in engineering while also attending ground school training.
