editor and journalist, was born on 10 January 1869 at Brighton SA, 10th of the eleven children of Samuel Prior, farmer from Cornwall, and Jane, née Geake. Briefly edited the Bro ken Hill Times (later the Broken Hill Argus ), then from c.1889 edited the Barrier Miner for 14 years. Joined the Bulletin at Archibald’s invitation, taking over from James Edmond ( ADB 8) as finance editor in 1903. He also wrote theatre criticism for the Bulletin . Associate editor 1912, major shareholder 1914 and senior editor 1915. D.H. Lawrence praised Prior’s Bulletin as 'the only periodical in the world that really amused him’. In 1927 he became both manager and editor with the purchase of William Macleod 's shares. His second son, Henry Kenneth Prior, succeeded him at the Bulletin after he died at Mosman on 6 June 1933 and the family kept control until ACP bought the magazine in 1960.
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- Writers:
- Kerr, Joan
- Date written:
- 1996
- Last updated:
- 2007
