Robert Pringle (1798 – 15 December 1842) was a British Army officer and politician. Pringle lived at Clifton Park in

Roxburghshire Roxburghshire or the County of Roxburgh () is a historic county and registration county in the Southern Uplands of Scotland. It borders Dumfriesshire to the west, Selkirkshire and Midlothian to the northwest, and Berwickshire to the north. T ...

. He served in

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in the

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, becoming a captain. At the

1832 UK general election The 1832 United Kingdom general election was held on 8 December 1832 to 8 January 1833. The first election to be held in the newly-reformed House of Commons, the Whigs under Earl Grey won a landslide victory with a majority of 224 seats. Earl ...

, he stood as a Whig in

Selkirkshire Selkirkshire or the County of Selkirk is a Counties of Scotland, historic county and registration county of Scotland. It borders Peeblesshire to the west, Midlothian to the north, Roxburghshire to the east, and Dumfriesshire to the south. It de ...

. He won the seat, becoming the fifth generation of his family to represent the county. In Parliament, he argued against monopolies and sinecures. He stood for re-election at the 1835 UK general election, but was defeated, and failed to regain the seat at the 1837 UK general election.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Pringle, Robert 1842 deaths Whig (British political party) MPs for Scottish constituencies UK MPs 1832–1835 1798 births