Surgeon discus thrower shot putter
At the 1930 British Empire Games he finished fourth in the discus throw event and sixth in the shot put competition.
Pridie was an orthopaedic surgeon. He studied at the University of Bristol. With a Fellowship from the Royal College of Surgeons of England he visited Böhler in Vienna, Watson-Jones in Liverpool and Girdlestone in Oxford.
Twenty-eight years old he became a fracture surgeon at Bristol Royal Infirmary.
He developed several devices for fracture treatment and was an eminent surgeon. Pridie is known for a particular cartilage repair technique where repair by fibrocartilage formation is stimulated by drilling small holes into the subchondral bone plate after surgical debridement of cartilage defects, known as the Pridie drilling technique.
He died of a heart attack in 1963.