Robert Pryor DL JP (21 April 1812 - 23 August 1889) was an English barrister.
[3] His elder brother Marlborough Pryor (1807-1869) was JP, but had left no children.
Pryor was educated privately before being admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1829 and graduating as fourth wrangler in 1834.
Pryor retired from the bar in 1863, and purchased for his residence High Elms Manor in Hertfordshire.
There, he was a justice of the peace and succeeded James Grimston, 2nd Earl of Verulam as chairman of the Hertfordshire Quarter Sessions in 1867.