Ernest Hanley Protheroe, born 1866,[1] was a teacher and prolific author of fiction and non-fiction.

Biography

Protheroe was a teacher and became a prolific author, sometimes writing under various pen names.[2] during the First World War he wrote some patriotic biographies including Lord Kitchener and Edith Cavell.[3][4]

He was known to have lived in Wimbledon and Hyde, Greater Manchester.[5][6]

Protheroe died in 1929.[1]

Personal life

Protheroe and his wife Alice had three sons, Alan, Cyril and Geoffrey, and two daughters, Marjorie and Phyllis.[5]

Bibliography

A selection of Prothroe's work includes:

• A commercial geography of the British empire. 1903. OL 7196343M.
• The dominion of man. 1906.
• In Empire's Cause. 1908.
• The handy natural history. London: Religious Tract Society. 1909. OCLC 819398604.
• The handy natural history. Boston: The Gorham Press. 1910. OL 7188868M.
• New illustrated natural history of the world. 1910. OL 14030584M.
• Every boy's book of railways and steamships. London: Religious Tract Society. 1911. OCLC 315073103. OL 24532472M.
• The British navy : its making and its meaning. London, New York: G. Routledge & Sons, Ltd., E.P. Dutton & Co. 1914. OCLC 7863189. OL 414896W.
• The railways of the world (1 ed.). London, New York: G. Routledge & Sons, Ltd., E.P. Dutton & Co. 1914. OCLC 3222149. OL 7201905M.
• Noble Woman The Life-Story of Edith Cavell. 1916a. OCLC 747742308.
• Lord Kitchener. 1916b.
• The book of ships. 1920.
• A book about ships. 1922.
• The sister Crusoes. 1925.
• A book about the romance of mining. 1927.
• Earl Haig. 1928.
• A book about aircraft. 1928.

References

Sources and further reading

• Holland, Steve (1 February 2018). Forgotten Authors. Vol. 2. Independently published. ISBN 978-1977064363. Ernest Protheroe.