Frank Pryor
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| name = Frank Pryor
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| office1 = Secretary of the Department of Secondary Industry
| term_start1 = 9 January 1973
| term_end1 = 12 June 1974
| birth_name = Frank Commons Pryor
| birth_date = November 1919
| birth_place = Nyngan, New South Wales
| death_date = {{Death year and age|1985|1919|11}}
| death_place = Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
| occupation = Public servant
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| nationality = Australian
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| spouse = Joan Adelaide Steer
| alma_mater = University of Sydney
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Frank Commons Pryor {{post-nominals|country=AUS|OBE}} (1919-1985) was a senior Australia public servant.
Life and career
Pryor graduated with first class honours in Philosophy from the University of Sydney, having been a member of the Philosophy Club there in 1939.{{citation|page=105|first=Alan|last=Barcan|title=Radical Students: The Old Left at Sydney University|publisher=Melbourne University Press|date=2002|isbn=0-522-85017-0}} Within a year of graduation, Pryor began his Australian Public Service career in the Department of the Treasury.
In November 1971, Pryor resigned from the Treasury after John Stone was appointed a Deputy Secretary in the Department.{{cite news|first=Bruce|last=Juddery|author-link=Bruce Juddery|title=Trade post|date=24 December 1971|newspaper=The Canberra Times|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article110696566}} In December 1971 Pryor returned to the Australian Public Service as director of the Office of Secondary Industry within the Department of Trade and Industry.
In July 1972 the Australian Government approved the creation of 25 new positions in the Office of Secondary Industry, giving Pryor the opportunity to set up the nucleus for a full-scale Department of Secondary Industry.{{cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article101993276|title=Secondary Industry faces opposition|first=Bruce|last=Juddery|author-link=Bruce Juddery|date=7 July 1972|page=2|newspaper=The Canberra Times}}
In April 1973 the then Minister for Secondary Industry, Jim Cairns, proposed to Cabinet that Pryor be appointed to the board of the Australian Industry Development Corporation.{{cite news|first=Warwick|last=Bracken|title=Government appointee for AIDC|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article136970648|date=14 April 1973|page=19|newspaper=The Canberra Times}}
Pryor retired from the public service in 1984.
Pryor died in Canberra in November 1985.
{{cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article118176023|date=3 December 1985|title=Obituary: Mr Frank Commons Pryor|first=Manning|last=Clark|author-link=Manning Clark|newspaper=The Canberra Times|page=10}}
Awards
Frank Pryor was created an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in January 1970 while First Assistant Secretary of the Treasury.{{citation|url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1108972|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140823133738/http://www.itsanhonour.gov.au/honours/honour_roll/search.cfm?aus_award_id=1108972&search_type=quick&showInd=true|archivedate=23 August 2014|title=Search Australian Honours: PRYOR, Frank Commons|publisher=Australian Government|work=itsanhonour.gov.au}}
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Category:Australian public servants
Category:University of Sydney alumni
Category:Australian Officers of the Order of the British Empire
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