Ernest Hanley Protheroe (1866–1929) was a prolific British children's author who wrote stories for boys under his own name, and stories for girls under the pseudonyms Alys Chatwyn, Phyllis Hanley, P. Nester and Marjorie Wynne. He was also a teacher and wrote numerous reference books, on subjects as diverse as natural history, railways, mining and the British Empire. During the First World War he wrote patriotic biographies on Lord Kitchener and the British nurse Edith Cavell.
