George Cossar Pringle
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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[]
- ^ "The Pringle history map series. Stuart period". 1904.
- ^ https://www.ancestry.co.uk/genealogy/records/george-cossar-pringle_68566321
- ^ 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.
- ^ Spectator (newspaper) 4 March 1916
- ^ https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:George_Cossar_Pringle
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