Lindsay Dixon Pryor (1915-1998) is best known for his contribution to the landscape of Canberra when employed as landscape manager and landscape architect by the Department of the Interior between 1944 and 1958. Pryor was trained as a forester and subsequently applied himself to cognate fields of botany, landscape design and management, and academia as Foundation Professor of Botany at the Australian National University from 1958 to 1976. His role as advisor and designer for Canberra’s landscape enabled a range of commissions including the landscape for the ANU and subsequently for various new Australian universities including those of the 1960’s expansion era. Pryor’s engagement in university planning and design advanced a role for landscape architects that hitherto had only sporadically surfaced. This paper briefly outlines Pryor’s career with emphasis on his contribution to the emerging profession of landscape architecture in the 1960s. In documenting and analysing his university landscapes it will identify his key approaches to planting design, the nature of his commissions and associations, the outcomes of his work, and ultimately the legacies that he created for landscape architecture in Australia.