Prizeman was the son of William Benjamin Prizeman who was a member of the first Gladstone town council and mayor in 1882-1883. He was educated privately and like his father was mayor in 1904; 1913-1914; and 1916. From 1887 to 1904 he was a printer with the Gladstone Observer. A long-standing councillor and part-time writer, he is described by MacDonald (1988): 245 to have been 'as much a part of Gladstone as Auckland Hill'. Prizeman was chairman of the Port Curtis Dairy Company and the Gladstone Harbour Board. He was also a director of the Gladstone Fisheries and Cold Store Company and the Gladstone Electric Light Company.Under the pseudonym 'Don Quixote', Prizeman wrote for the Brisbane Courier, the Sydney Bulletin and other Australian journals.
(Source: H. J. Gibney A Biographical Register, 1788-1939 (1987):192; Lorna MacDonald Gladstone : City That Waited (1988): 245; Robyn Sheahan-Bright Kookaburra Shells Port Curtis Literature (2006): 171-173).
