Edward Gawler Prior, PC (21 May 1853 – 12 December 1920) was a mining engineer and politician in British Columbia.

He then moved to British Columbia, settling in Nanaimo and took employment as assistant manager of the Vancouver Coal Mining & Land Co., Ltd.

He moved to provincial politics and was elected to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia in 1902 becoming minister of mines.

In 1902 he became the 15th premier leading the province's last non-partisan administration but was dismissed by the lieutenant governor in 1903 due to charges of conflict of interest that involved giving an important construction contract to his own hardware business, and did not run in the subsequent 1903 general election.

Edward Gawler Prior is interred in the Ross Bay Cemetery in Victoria, British Columbia.