Sir Henry Protheroe

Sheriff of Bristol 1802 and 1807, and of Monmouthshire 1817. Whig, knighted in 1803. With William John Struth (q.v.) he invested in land and enslaved people on St Vincent in the early 1800s; owner of collieries and "extensive coal land" in Monmouthshire and Pembrokeshire.

1. Under a deed of 14/01/1804, James Bruce leased to William John Struth and Henry Protheroe 45 named enslaved people (appraised at £2650) for 3 years at £312 p.a.

2. Of Cote House, Bristol, when he contributed £21 and held an annual subscription to the Bristol Auxilliary Society of the British and Foreign Bible Society.

3. Sir Henry Protheroe of St Augustin, Bristol, married Elizabeth Babb of Ilfracombe, Devon, in France in 1836.

Graham William Arthur Bush, Bristol and Its Municipal Government, 1820-1851 (1976) p. 237, available for download http://www.bristol.ac.uk/Depts/History/bristolrecordsociety/publications.htm [accessed 07/12/2021]; Charles Wilkins, The South Wales Coal Trade and Its Allied Industries from the Earliest Days to the Present Time (1888) pp. 161-162, available at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015036673278&view=1up&seq=186&skin=2021 [accessed 07/12/2021]. See also http://www.welshcoalmines.co.uk/Gwent/Manmoel.htm [accessed 07/09/2020].

1. Deed Book 1804, British Library, EAP688/1/1/18, https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP688-1-1-18 pp. 8-11.

2. Report of the British and Foreign Bible Society (1812) via Googlebooks.

3. Ancestry.com, UK, Foreign and Overseas Registers of British Subjects, 1628-1969 [database online].

We are grateful to Steven Carter for his assistance with compiling this entry.