London, July 2.
The death has occurred of Rowland Edmund Prothero, first Lord Ernie, at the age of 85.
Educated. at Marlborough and Balliol College, Oxford, Lord Ernie, who received his barony in 1919, was a Fellow of All Souls College from 1875 te 1891 and Proctor, from 1883 to 1884. He was MP. for the University of Oxford from 1914 to 1919
From 1916 to 1919 he served as President of the Board of Agriculture.
Lord Ernie, who was at one time editor of the "Quarterly Review," was also the author of numerous publications, including the "Letters znd Journals of Lord Byron"—Reuter.
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