Ernest Broxap (1880–1963) was a British historian, businessman and Secretary of the

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from 1920 to 1940.

Life

Broxap was born in 1880. His elder brother, Henry Broxap, was the author of ''A Biography of Thomas Deacon: The Manchester non-juror'' (Manchester, 1911) and ''The later non-jurors'' (Cambridge, 1924). He studied history at

Owens College Owens may refer to: Places in the United States * Owens Station, Delaware * Owens Township, St. Louis County, Minnesota * Owens, Missouri * Owens, Ohio * Owens, Virginia People * Owens (surname), including a list of people with the name * Ow ...

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, gaining a BA in 1900 and an MA in 1901, and was taught by the historians T. F. Tout, James Tait, and Charles Firth. After his studies, he joined his elder brother, Henry, as a partner in the family yarn business. He published a number of seminal works on various aspects of the

English Civil War The English Civil War (1642–1651) was a series of civil wars and political machinations between Parliamentarians (" Roundheads") and Royalists led by Charles I ("Cavaliers"), mainly over the manner of England's governance and issues of re ...

and on

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. Broxap became acquainted with

Charles William Sutton Charles William Sutton (1848–1920) was a British librarian and author. Career Sutton was librarian of the Free Manchester Public Libraries. He was also Secretary of the Chetham Society from 1890 to 1920, Editor of the Lancashire and Cheshire ...

and became his Assistant as Secretary of the

from 1915 and after Sutton's death, was Secretary for twenty years until 1940.Dore, R.N., ‘Introduction to the Second Edition’, in E. Broxap,
The Great Civil War in Lancashire (1642–51)
', (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2nd edn, 1973), v–ix.

Family

Broxap married in 1912 and lived at Kersal,

Salford Salford () is a city and the largest settlement in the City of Salford metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. In 2011, Salford had a population of 103,886. It is also the second and only other city in the metropolitan county afte ...

, before moving to

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and

Alderley Edge Alderley Edge is a village and civil parish in Cheshire, England. In 2011, it had a population of 4,780. Alderley Edge is northwest of Macclesfield and south of Manchester, at the base of a steep and thickly wooded sandstone escarpment, Alder ...

in Cheshire. He died, aged 83, in 1963.

Select bibliography

* "The siege of Manchester in 1642" in ''Historical Essays by Members of the Owens College, Manchester, published in commemoration of its jubilee (1851–1901)'', edited by T.F. Tout and James Tait (1902) * "The sieges of Hull during the Great Civil War", ''

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'' (1905) * "A Manchester assessment of 1648", in ''Chetham Miscellanies II'',

, New Series, 63 (1909) * ''The Great Civil War in Lancashire (1642–51)'', (1st edition, 1910); 2nd edition, Manchester University Press, 1973. * "Extracts from Manchester churchwardens' accounts, 1664–1710", in ''Chetham Miscellanies IV'',

, New Series, 80 (1921) * "Introduction", in H.G. James, ''Manchester A Hundred Years Ago'' (1921).

References

1880 births 1963 deaths 20th-century British historians People from the City of Salford Alumni of the University of Manchester 20th-century English male writers 20th-century English historians History of Lancashire Chetham Society {{UK-historian-stub