About Frank Pryor
Lived 1919 – 1985 (aged 65–66). Frank Pryor was an Australian civil servant.
Frank Commons Pryor (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. Within a year of graduation, Pryor began his Australian Public Service career in the Department of the Treasury. 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 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.
Pryor retired from the public service in 1984.
Awards Frank Pryor was created an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in January 1970 while First Assistant Secretary of the Treasury.
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Who was Frank Pryor?
Australian public servant
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Frank Pryor was born in 1919 in Nyngan.
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Frank Pryor died in 1985 in Canberra.
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Frank Pryor was a civil servant.
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Frank Pryor was Australian.
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