College, Charles Waldstein, Slade Professor of Fine Art and William Ridgeway the Disney Professor of Archaeology. The establishment of examinations were approved in 1908. Waldstein favoured Prior as his successor. Prior was elected Slade Professor on 20 February 1912 with the role of developing the new School of Architecture. In 1915 the tenure of the Professorship was extended to life. Prior established the syllabus for the School, oversaw the establishment of the Department and instigated a research programme. The latter included experimental studies into the performance of limes and cements. Works Early buildings 1880–1894 Later works Final years Prior remained as Slade Professor until his death from cancer on 19 August 1932. He spent his final year writing letters about architectural education. He was buried in an unmarked grave at St Mary's Church, Apuldram. Few of his friends remained, Lethaby, Newton, and Horsley were all dead, and none of his former architectural colleagues attended his funeral. His obituary in the Architect and Building News perhaps best summed him up: Prior's writings Architecture; a Profession or an Art, Jackson, T.G. and Shaw, N Cathedral Builders in England, Prior, E.S., 1905 An Account of Medieval Figure-Sculpture in England, Prior, E.S. and Gardner, Arthur, 1912 A History of Gothic Art, Prior, E.S., Geo Bell & Sons, London, 1900 The Origins of the Guild; Lecture to the Guild, 1895, in Masse, H.J.L.J., The Art Workers Guild 1884–1934, Oxford, 1935 p 11. Church Building as it is and as it Might Be, The Architectural Review, Vol. IV 1898 The Architectural Review, Prior, E.S., The Decoration of St Paul's, 1899, vol. 6, p. 43 The New Cathedral for Liverpool, The Architectural Review, Oct 1901, vol. 10. Bibliography Cook, Martin Godfrey, Edward Prior: Arts and Crafts Architect, 2015 Davidson, T.R., Modern Homes, 1909 Davidson, T.R. (ed), The Arts Connected with Building, 1909 Fellows, R., Edwardian Style and Technology, Lund Humphries, 1995 Franklin, J, Edwardian Butterfly House, 1975 pp 220–225 Grillet, C, Edward Prior, in Edwardian Architecture and Its Origins, ed Service A., The Architectural Press Ltd, 1975, pp. 143–151 Hoare, G, and Pyne, G. Prior's Barn and Gimson's Coxen, 1978. Muthesius, Hermann, Das Englishe Haus, vol. II, 1904 Naylor, G, The Arts and Crafts Movement, 1971 Saint, A., Richard Norman Shaw, pp165–171 Service, A., Edwardian Architecture and Its Origins, The Architectural Press Ltd, 1977 Sparke, P. et al., Design Source Book, Macdonald Orbis, 1986. Walker, Lynne, E.S.