Background
Oswald was born the son of James Pryor (ca1844 – 19 April 1917) and Caroline Jane Pryor (ca1846 – 20 August 1926), née Richards, both of Cornish origin, at Moonta Mines.
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Oswald Pryor
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He began work in the mines at age 13 years, under Captain H. R. Hancock. He was surface manager from 1911 to a few months before the company went into liquidation in 1923. His earliest work appeared in Quiz from 1901, and The Gadfly in 1907, both under the pseudonym "Cipher".
Encouraged by C. J. Dennis, he began submitting his cartoons depicting Cornish miners to The Bulletin. under his own name.
He also contributed to the Workers Weekly Herald, the Areas Express and Kapunda Herald."Pen names of South Australian journalists and cartoonists". State Library of South Australia.
Retrieved 1 March 2016. He was a staff cartoonist for the (Adelaide) News from 1928 to 1935.
lieutenant was the general belief of the Tres, Pols and Pens who descended on the Moonta district about 100 years ago that they had gone there to mine copper and being conscientious fellows, mine copper they did, oblivious of the fact that their real function in life was to provide raw material for the cartoons of Oswald Pryor.
West. East. Fitz Henry (1903–1957) in The Bulletin
Lindsay Dixon Pryor (20 October 1915 – ) married Wilma Brahe Percival of Canberra on 8 October 1938. His promotion to Superintendent of Parks and Gardens, Department of the Interior in 1944 was criticised. He was in 1958 appointed Professor of Botany at Canberra University College, later part of the Australian National University.
He was responsible establishing the Botanic Garden on Black Mountain and the Mount Gingera alpine park (later abandoned). grandson Geoff Pryor was a cartoonist for the Canberra Times.
