Editing C. D. Broad (section)

== Biography ==
Broad was born in [[Harlesden]], in [[Middlesex]], England.<ref group="lower-roman">Harlesden was part of Middlesex until 1965; today it is part of the [[London Borough of Brent]] in Greater London.</ref>

He was educated at [[Dulwich College]] from 1900 until 1906. He gained a scholarship in 1906 to study at [[Trinity College, Cambridge]], graduating in 1910 with [[British undergraduate degree classification|First-Class Honours]], with distinction.<ref>Hodges, S. 1981. ''God's Gift: A Living History of Dulwich College''. London: Heinemann. p. 87.</ref> He became a [[Fellow]] of Trinity College the following year.

=== Career ===
As his fellowship at Trinity College was a non-residential position, he was also able to accept a position as an assistant lecturer that he had applied for at [[St Andrews University]], where he remained until 1920. That year, he was appointed professor at [[Bristol University]], working there until 1923, when he returned to Trinity as a lecturer. From 1926 until 1931, he was a lecturer in '[[Moral Science|moral science]]' at [[Faculty of philosophy cambridge|Cambridge University's Faculty of Philosophy]].

Later at Cambridge, he was appointed in 1931 as 'Sidgwick Lecturer', a role he would keep until 1933, when he was appointed [[Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy|Knightbridge Professor of Moral Philosophy]] at the university, a position he held for twenty years (until 1953).<ref name=TCC>{{cite web|title=Charlie Dunbar Broad|website=Trinity College Chapel|url=http://trinitycollegechapel.com/about/memorials/brasses/broad/}}</ref> In 1927 he gave the British Academy's [[Henriette Hertz#British Academy bequest|Master-Mind Lecture]], entitled "Sir Isaac Newton."<ref>{{cite journal |author=Broad, C. D. |year=1927 |title=Sir Isaac Newton |journal=Proceedings of the British Academy |volume=13 |pages=173–202}} Annual Lecture on a Master Mind. Henriette Hertz Trust. Read July 15, 1927. Reprinted in ''Ethics and the history of philosophy'', pp. 3–28.</ref>

In addition, Broad was President of the [[Aristotelian Society]] from 1927 to 1928, and again from 1954 to 1955. He was also President of the [[Society for Psychical Research]] in 1935 and 1958.<ref name=TCC/>

=== Personal life ===
Broad was openly homosexual at a time when [[LGBT rights in the United Kingdom|homosexual acts were illegal]]. In March 1958, Broad along with fellow philosophers [[A. J. Ayer]] and [[Bertrand Russell]], writer [[J.B. Priestley]] and 27 others sent a letter to ''[[The Times]]'' which urged the acceptance of the ''[[Wolfenden Report]]'s'' recommendation that homosexual acts should "no longer be a criminal offence."<ref>[[Noel Gilroy Annan|N. G. Annan]], [[Clement Attlee|Attlee]], [[A. J. Ayer]], [[Robert Boothby]], [[C. M. Bowra]], C. D. Broad, [[Lord David Cecil|David Cecil]], [[John Collins (priest)|L. John Collins]], [[Alex Comfort]], [[A. E. Dyson]], Robert Exon, [[Geoffrey Faber]], [[Jacquetta Hawkes]], [[Trevor Huddleston]], [[Julian Huxley|C. R. Julian Huxley]], [[C. Day-Lewis]], W. R. Niblett, [[J. B. Priestley]], [[Bertrand Russell|Russell]], [[Donald Soper|Donald O. Soper]], [[Stephen Spender]], [[Mary Stocks, Baroness Stocks|Mary Stocks]], [[A. J. P. Taylor]], [[E. M. W. Tillyard]], [[Alexander Roper Vidler|Alec R. Vidler]], [[Kenneth Walker (author)|Kenneth Walker]], [[Leslie Weatherhead|Leslie D. Weatherhead]], [[C. V. Wedgwood]], [[Angus Wilson]], [[John Wisdom]], and [[Barbara Wootton]]. 7 March 1958. "Letter to the Editor." ''[[The Times]]''.</ref>