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.

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He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge.

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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. Despite working on a number of plays however, Marigold was his only success.

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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. He never married.

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Plays by Pryor and Lizzie Allen Harker on Great War Theatre

1862 births

1937 deaths

People educated at Eton College

Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge

English dramatists and playwrights