Thomas Pryor / George Pryor
In 1774 and 1787, Thomas Pryor was listed as a scissors and surgeons’ instrument maker at Gibraltar, using the trade mark ‘TRY’. He was apparently born in about 1731, the son of Matthew Pryor, a scissorsmith. Thomas was apprenticed to Richard Jeffcock and then James Dearden, a scissorsmith, and granted his Freedom in 1754. He disappeared from Sheffield directories after 1787 and presumably he died. In 1797, George Pryor appeared in a directory as a surgeons’ instrument ma....
