Ernest Broxap (1880–1963) was a British historian, businessman and Secretary of theChetham Society from 1920 to 1940.

Broxap was born in 1880. His elder brother, Henry Broxap, was the author ofA Biography of Thomas Deacon: The Manchester non-juror (Manchester, 1911) andThe later non-jurors (Cambridge, 1924).^[1]

He studied history atOwens College,Manchester, gaining aBA in 1900 and anMA in 1901, and was taught by the historiansT. F. Tout,James Tait, andCharles Firth. After his studies, he joined his elder brother, Henry, as a partner in the family yarn business.^[1]

He published a number of seminal works on various aspects of theEnglish Civil War and onLancashire. Broxap became acquainted withCharles William Sutton and became his Assistant as Secretary of theChetham Society from 1915 and after Sutton's death, was Secretary for twenty years until 1940.^[2]

Broxap married in 1912 and lived atKersal,Salford, before moving toHale andAlderley Edge in Cheshire. He died, aged 83, in 1963.^[1][2]

• "The siege of Manchester in 1642" inHistorical Essays by Members of the Owens College, Manchester, published in commemoration of its jubilee (1851–1901), edited byT.F. Tout andJames Tait (1902)
• "The sieges of Hull during the Great Civil War",English Historical Review (1905)
• "A Manchester assessment of 1648", inChetham Miscellanies II,Chetham Society, 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", inChetham Miscellanies IV,Chetham Society, New Series, 80 (1921)
• "Introduction", in H.G. James,Manchester A Hundred Years Ago (1921).

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