Born at Godalming 16 March 1875 youngest son of Benjamin Broomhall of the China Inland Mission, an energetic opponent of the opium trade, he was educated at the City of London School intending to go into business, but instead entered the London Hospital, where he became a house surgeon. After holding resident posts at St Mark's and at the Mildmay Hospital, Bethnal Green, he went to China as a medical missionary in 1903. He practised at Tai-Yuan-Fu in Shansi where Dr Arnold Edward Lovitt MRCS had been murdered a few years before during the Boxer Rising. His valuable services were recognised by the Imperial and the Revolutionary governments. He was awarded the Order of the Double Dragon in the last year of the Empire (1910) and the Army and Navy medal by the new Republic (1915), and in 1916 the Order of Golden Grain by Yen Shi San, governor of the "model province" of Shansi. He returned to England during the first world war and served at Graylingwell Military Hospital, Chichester, and then practised at Garstang, Lancashire, where he was medical Officer to the Rural District Council. He went again to China in 1920 and worked at Sianfu in Shensi Province for eleven years. He came home in 1931 and practised till 1939 in Dulwich Village, London SE. He then retired to Redlynch near Salisbury, where he helped in medical activities during the war of 1939-45. Mrs Broomhall died on 29 April 1952, and he died at Little Mount, Redlynch on 2 January 1961 aged 85, survived by two sons and four daughters; one of his sons, Alfred James Broomhall MRCS, was a medical missionary in the Philippines.