George Cossar Pringle

George Cossar Pringle FRSE (1858–c.1930) was a Scottish school-teacher and author. He is mainly remembered for the Pringle History Map series.[1]

Life

He was born in 1858 the son of George Pringle (1820-1881) and his wife, Elizaabeth Cossar (1827-1881).[2]

He was Rector of Peebles Burgh and County High School for most of his later life. In 1908 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were John Alison, John Brown Clark, David Fowler Lowe and George Chrystal. He resigned from the Society in 1920.[3]

In the First World War he served on the Teachers War Service Committee.[4]

Publications

  • Peebles and Selkirk[5]
  • Notes of Lessons on Thrift (1916)

References

  1. ↑ https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Pringle_History_Map_Series.html?id=6SIPnQEACAAJ&hl=en&output=html_text&redir_esc=y
  2. ↑ https://www.ancestry.co.uk/genealogy/records/george-cossar-pringle_68566321
  3. ↑ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X.
  4. ↑ Spectator (newspaper) 4 March 1916
  5. ↑ https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:George_Cossar_Pringle


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