George Walter Prothero

Sir George Walter Prothero, KBE was an English historian, writer, and academic, and served as the president of the Royal Historical Society from 1901 to 1905.

Prothero was born in Wiltshire, and was educated at Eton, studying Classics at Kings College at the University of Cambridge, and at the University of Bonn. He went on to become a Fellow of Kings College, working as a history lecturer there from 1876. In 1894, he became the first Professor of Modern History at the University of Edinburgh. He held this position for five years before moving to London to take the place of his brother, Lord Ernle, as the editor of the Quarterly Review, a political periodical. He also acted as editor of the Cambridge Historical Series, a set of historical books detailing the history of several European nations and other parts of the world which were published by Cambridge University Press from 1894 onwards. With A. W. Ward and Stanley Mordaunt Leathes he edited the Cambridge Modern History between 1901 and 1912.

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