Francis Robert "Frank" Pryor (30 March 1862 – 4 December 1937) was an English playwright.
Pryor was the youngest son of Robert Pryor of High Elms, Hertfordshire and his wife Elizabeth Caroline née Wyrley-Birch.Burke's Peerage. Pryor of Weston Hall
He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge.
He was the author, jointly with Lizzie Allen Harker, of the 1914 comedy play Marigold, which was turned into a 1938 film Marigold. It was also broadcast on 22 May 1943 as one of the first episodes of BBC Radio's long-running drama strand Saturday Night Theatre.Radio Times, Issue 1024, 16 May 1943, p. 18 Despite working on a number of plays however, Marigold was his only success. She was also the author of the BBC production "Scenes from Marigold".
He was also a director of Allsopp's Brewery, and an Underwriter at Lloyd's of London.
An obituary by Laurence Binyon was published in The Times.The Times, Thursday, 16 Dec 1937; pg. 19; Issue 47869; col B Mr. Frank Pryor Mr. Laurence Binyon. Category: Obituaries He never married.
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Plays by Pryor and Lizzie Allen Harker on Great War Theatre