Edward Protheroe

Edward Davis Protheroe ( – 18 August 1852), known as Edward Protheroe until 21 January 1845, was a British Radical and Whig politician.

Family Protheroe was the son of Edward Protheroe, MP and Anne Waterhouse, daughter of John Waterhouse. In 1817, he was admitted to Christ Church, Oxford, where he matriculated in February at age 18.

In 1845, in accordance with the will of Dame Mary Hill, widow of Mark Davis of Turnwood, from whom he had inherited "considerable property" he adopted the additional surname of Davis. Before his death in 1852, he never married and spent the last three years of his life "paralysed". He left small annuities to his friends, but the majority of his estate transferred to his elderly father.