M.G.M. Pryor

Who is M.G.M. Pryor?

Mark Gillachrist Marlborough Pryor was a British biologist, 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, the daughter of Sir Norman Moore, 1st Baronet. His paternal grandfather was Marlborough Robert Pryor, who was an amateur naturalist "well known in Cambridge scientific circles". 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 the late French artist Jacques Raverat and his wife Gwendolen Mary, in 1940. They had four children: Emily Pryor, William Marlborough Pryor, Lucy and Amy Eleanor.

Pryor was elected a Fellow of Trinity College in 1939. Before the war, he published with P.F. Holmes a paper on barnacles in Horsey Mere in Nature. He also published a double paper on the hardening of oothecae and cuticles in insects.