Peter Dowding Prankerd (1819 – 17 December 1902) was an English businessman who made a fortune in Colonial South Australia real estate.
In 1839 he emigrated to Australia, and operated for a time as a stock agent at Kangaroo Point, Queensland.
Mentions[11] of his involvement with the Cape Yorke Eclipse Expedition[12] may have mistaken him for someone of a similar name.
[13] The Prankerds left for England aboard SS South Australian on 27 December 1872,[14] after making a gift to the people of Moonta of Block 259 in that town, adjacent the Baptist chapel, and another block to the residents of Langport,[15] his subdivision on Moonta Bay.
His interest in South Australian real estate continued, through his agent Frederick Wright.