Clement-Jones family - Person Sheet
Clement-Jones family - Person Sheet
NameDr Mark Gillachrist Marlborough PRYOR, 8103
Birth1919
Death1970
EducationEton and Trinity College Cambridge
FatherLt Col Walter Marlborough PRYOR , 8107 (1880-1962)
MotherEthne Philippa MOORE , 8110 (1886-1968)
Spouses
1Sophie RAVERAT, 8101
FatherJacques RAVERAT , 8100 (1885-1925)
MotherGwendolen Mary DARWIN , 8094 (1885-1957)
Notes for Dr Mark Gillachrist Marlborough PRYOR
Mark Gillachrist Marlborough Pryor (27 February 1919 – 19 October 1970) was a British biologist[1], who was Senior Tutor and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.
Pryor was the middle son of Lt. Col. Walter Marlborough Pryor and his wife Ethne Philippa (née Moore), the daughter of Sir Norman Moore, 1st Baronet[2]. He was educated, per family tradition, at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. He worked as a research student under A.D. Imms
Pryor married Sophie Raverat, daughter of Jacques Raverat and Gwendolen Mary (née Darwin) (a grand-daughter of Charles Darwin), in 1940. They had three children: William Marlborough Pryor (born 1945), Lucy (known professionally as "Lucy Raverat") and Amy Eleanor (born 1947, known as Nelly; she married the director Philip Trevelyan).
Pryor was elected a Fellow of Trinity College in 1939. Before the war, he published a paper on barnacles in Horsey Mere[3] and double paper on the hardening of oothecae[4] and cuticles[5] in insects.
During the Second World War, Pryor worked at the Timber and Adhesives Division of the Royal Aircraft Establishment, RAE Farnborough, where he applied his entomological knowledge to the development of aircraft glue, alongside Norman de Bruyne. After the war, de Bruyne continued commercial production of glues, but Pryor returned to Cambridge, where he continued his research.
Pryor became a tutor at Trinity in 1955, and was later senior tutor until 1964.
He had to deal with the fall out from his son William's heroin addiction and William's subsequent arrest and prosecution for forging a heroin prescription, and resignation from Trinity where he was an undergraduate
Mark and Sophie Pryor were involved in a road traffic accident in 1967, in which she was relatively unharmed but which left him with brain damage in a persistent vegetative state for almost three years until his death, aged 51.
Pryor was the middle son of Lt. Col. Walter Marlborough Pryor and his wife Ethne Philippa (née Moore), the daughter of Sir Norman Moore, 1st Baronet[2]. He was educated, per family tradition, at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. He worked as a research student under A.D. Imms
Pryor married Sophie Raverat, daughter of Jacques Raverat and Gwendolen Mary (née Darwin) (a grand-daughter of Charles Darwin), in 1940. They had three children: William Marlborough Pryor (born 1945), Lucy (known professionally as "Lucy Raverat") and Amy Eleanor (born 1947, known as Nelly; she married the director Philip Trevelyan).
Pryor was elected a Fellow of Trinity College in 1939. Before the war, he published a paper on barnacles in Horsey Mere[3] and double paper on the hardening of oothecae[4] and cuticles[5] in insects.
During the Second World War, Pryor worked at the Timber and Adhesives Division of the Royal Aircraft Establishment, RAE Farnborough, where he applied his entomological knowledge to the development of aircraft glue, alongside Norman de Bruyne. After the war, de Bruyne continued commercial production of glues, but Pryor returned to Cambridge, where he continued his research.
Pryor became a tutor at Trinity in 1955, and was later senior tutor until 1964.
He had to deal with the fall out from his son William's heroin addiction and William's subsequent arrest and prosecution for forging a heroin prescription, and resignation from Trinity where he was an undergraduate
Mark and Sophie Pryor were involved in a road traffic accident in 1967, in which she was relatively unharmed but which left him with brain damage in a persistent vegetative state for almost three years until his death, aged 51.