Dudley Pryke

Feb 1947.

Sir William Robert Dudley Pryke (1882–1959) 2nd Baronet of Pryke and Palmer

Born the son of William Robert Pryke

1911 Married at West Ham to Marjorie Brown and had three sons and a daughter

1947 "The Chairman of the Distributors of Builders' Supplies Joint Council has spent all his working life in the family business of Pryke and Palmer, Ltd., builders' and plumbers' merchants, of which he is joint managing director: Sir Dudley was born in London in 1882 and educated at the City of London School. He was apprenticed in 1902 to his father, the late Sir William Robert Pryke, Bart.," to learn his art of an Ironmonger in the City of London" under the aegis of the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers.

In 1932 he succeeded to the title which was conferred upon his father in 1926 at the conclusion of his year of office as Lord Mayor of London. Sir Dudley has devoted many years to trade association work. He joined the council of the Builders' and Plumbers' Merchants' Association in 1916, and was President from 1932 until that association was absorbed, with other bodies, in Building Industry Distributors. Sir Dudley then became the first President of the Distributors. On relinquishing that position last April, he was elected chairman of the Supplies Joint Council."

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