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

Life

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

George Cossar Pringle

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.

George Cossar Pringle

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

George Cossar Pringle

Publications

Peebles and Selkirk

Notes of Lessons on Thrift (1916)

References

1858 births

Scottish non-fiction writers

People from Peebles

Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

1930s deaths

Scottish schoolteachers