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Arthur Prior, with daughter Ann on his back, tutoring son Martin and his friend Philip Woollaston in the backyard. Philip Woollaston, the son of the artist Toss Woollaston, was a Labour minister from 1984-90.

Mary Prior with the University of Canterbury staff members, inside the university complex in Christchurch

The Priors in front of their home on 23 Vernon Terrace, Christchurch in 1958.
From left, Phillip Wollaston (family friend, son of the artist Toss Woollaston), Martin, Ann
Mary and Arthur Prior

The Priors at a family gathering in Wellington in 1958, at the house of Arthur's half brother Owen. From left: Ann (daughter), Mary (wife), Martin (son), Norman (Arthur's father, sitting), Arthur Prior, Jessie (step mother) holding two babies

Photographs of K. Popper's student and Arthur Prior's colleague in Manchester, Czesław Lejewski. Lejewski (1913-2001) was a Polish philosopher and logician, who grew out of the Lwow-Warsaw School of Logic. He studied under Jan Łukasiewicz in pre-WWII…

Arthur Prior in 1960

A memoir about Arthur Prior's life and work by his colleague and friend Anthony Kenny, written as an obituary for the British Academy. Kenny and Prior were both Philosophy Tutors at Balliol College in Oxford in the years before Prior's death.

During his secondary education, Artur Prior was a student at Wairarapa College in Masterton. The 75th Jubilee Book of Wairarapa College, published in 1998, reveals his high academic achievements in high school. On p. 92 of the Jubilee Book, A.N.…

Arthur Prior carrying baby daughter Ann in a 'cuddle seat', near the Cathedral Square in Central Christchurch, in early 1951.

Record of a request and two letters from A.N. Prior to the Canterbury University College: on 2 April 1951 Prior asked the university for leave of absence to attend a conference in Australia; on 21 September 1951 the university received Prior's report…