His father, Henry Richardson Procter was an eminent scientist and a Leeds University professor who specialised in leather chemistry.
He contributed to the school's publication, The Paper Chase in 1908 and 1909, was an assistant to Stanhope and Elizabeth Forbes, and was a successful, well-respected student.
Ernest and Dod were both influenced by Impressionism and Post-Impressionism and the artists that they met in France, such as Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Paul Cézanne.
On 21 October 1935, after years of high blood pressure, Procter died of a cerebral haemorrhage in North Shields, County Durham, while travelling.
[1][3][7] During the First World War Procter was a conscientious objector, serving with the Friends' Ambulance Unit[1] in Dunkirk from April 1916 until February 1919.
[1][6] Procter created in 1931 what he called Diaphenicons, which were "painted and glazed decorations that provided their own light source."