Marlborough Robert Pryor DL JP (16 October 1848 – 24 April 1920) was an English businessman, described in his Times obituary as a "savant, business expert and scholar" who was "a many sided man who devoted to business capacities which might have won him fame in science",[1] while Nature described him as being "well known in scientific circles at Cambridge".
[4] He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge[5] (as had been his father,[4] and younger brothers Frank[6] and Selwyn[7]).
[8] On 7 April 1875, he married Catherine Alice Hammond Solly, daughter of William Hammond Solly, of Serge Hill, Hertfordshire.
Their son was the soldier Walter Marlborough Pryor.
In his business career, he was a merchant in Southern Africa, and later worked for the Sun Life Insurance Company.