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,

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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 ''

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''.''Radio Times'', Issue 1024, 16 May 1943, p. 18
/ref> Despite working on a number of plays however, ''Marigold'' was his only success. He was also a director of Allsopp's Brewery, and an Underwriter at

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. An obituary by

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''.The Times, Thursday, 16 Dec 1937; pg. 19; Issue 47869; col B Mr. Frank Pryor Mr. Laurence Binyon. Obituaries He never married.

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Plays by Pryor and Lizzie Allen Harker on Great War Theatre

{{DEFAULTSORT:Pryor, Francis Robert 1862 births 1937 deaths People educated at Eton College Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge English dramatists and playwrights