Ernest Broxap (1880–1963) was a British historian, businessman and Secretary of the Chetham Society from 1920 to 1940.
[1] He studied history at Owens College, Manchester, 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.
[1] He published a number of seminal works on various aspects of the English Civil War and on Lancashire.
[2] Broxap married in 1912 and lived at Kersal, Salford, before moving to Hale and Alderley Edge in Cheshire.