BARON (1851-1937), British agriculturist and writer, was born in Clifton-on-Teme on Sept. 6, 1851, son of Canon Prothero, rector of Whippingham. He was educated at Marlborough and Balliol college, Oxford, and became a fellow of All Souls. From 1894 to 1899 Prothero edited The Quarterly Review. Twenty years as chief agent to the duke of Bedford gave him a thorough insight into agricultural questions. In 1913 he was a member of the royal commission on railways, and sat on the departmental committees on the home production of food (1914) and the increased price of commodities (1915). He entered parliament for Oxford uni versity in 1914, and was president of the Board of Agriculture under Lloyd George, 1916-19, when he resigned and was raised to the peerage. He died July 1, Among his works are Pioneers and Progress of English Farming (1888) ; Life and Correspondence of Dean Stanley (1893) ; Letters of Edward Gibbon (1896) ; Letters and Journals of Lord Byron (1898 1901) ; Psalms in Human Life (1903) ; The Pleasant Land of France (1908) ; English Farming, Past and Present (1912) ; and The Land and Its People (1925).