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 maker at Bank Street.  Confusingly, George Pryor – presumably a different man – was listed at 44 Hollin Street (Holly Street?) as a razor and lancet manufacturer (trade mark ‘AMTICTS’).  The George Pryor in Bank Street may have been Thomas’s son, who had been granted his Freedom and the trade mark ‘*TRY’ in 1786.  After 1797, however, no George Pryors were featured in Sheffield directories (the next list was published in 1811).  The burials of these Pryors have not been traced.