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)
gollark: If you make the counters/adders/register bigints it might still work.
gollark: Well, it makes humans entirely unable to distinguish violet and purple objects, which GTech™ has actually used for [REDACTED].
gollark: The image is not* somehow lacking half the spectrum and/or weirdly colored.
gollark: That's CLEARLY just your eyes.
gollark: The output of such a detector may look something like this.

References
  1. "The Pringle history map series. Stuart period". 1904.
  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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