Oswald Pryor
Oswald Pryor (15 February 1881 – 13 June 1971) was a South Australian cartoonist noted for his depictions of life in the Copper triangle, particularly of miners from Cornwall.
History
Oswald was born the son of James Pryor (ca.1844 – 19 April 1917) and Caroline Jane Pryor (ca.1846 – 20 August 1926), née Richards, at Moonta. He was a staff cartoonist for the (Adelaide) News from 1928 to 1935.
Family
He married Mabel Dixon ( – ) on 8 January 1908.[1]
- son Lindsay Dixon Pryor 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.[2] He was in 1958 appointed Professor of Botany at Canberra University College,[3] 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.[4]
Bibliography
Pryor, Oswald. Australia's little Cornwall, Adelaide, S. Aust.: Rigby, 1962 Pryor, Oswald. Cornish pasty : a selection of cartoons, Adelaide : Rigby, 1976 (collection of cartoons first published in The Bulletin)
- Contents may be viewed here. (Includes personal note to Bulletin editor J. Ken Moir.)
External links
References
- ↑ Mabel's sisters included Ada Maude Dixon, who married R. S. Richards, and Edith Thyra Dixon, who married S. R. Whitford.
- ↑ "Service Plums Picked While Men Abroad Fight". The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995) (ACT: National Library of Australia). 14 June 1944. p. 5. Retrieved 19 November 2014.
- ↑ "Dr. Pryor To Be Professor Of Botany At C.U.C.". The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995) (ACT: National Library of Australia). 29 October 1958. p. 2. Retrieved 19 November 2014.
- ↑ "A discovery of Pryor history.". The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995) (ACT: National Library of Australia). 6 August 1985. p. 3. Retrieved 19 November 2014.