Alexander Pringle (30 January 1791 – 2 September 1857) was a

Scottish Scottish usually refers to something of, from, or related to Scotland, including: *Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family native to Scotland *Scottish English *Scottish national identity, the Scottish ide ...

Conservative politician. He was Member of Parliament for Selkirkshire from 1830 to 1832 and again from 1835 to 1846. He was made a Lord of the Treasury in Peel's second ministry, but resigned in 1845 in protest at the decision to enhance the

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. After retiring from parliament he served as Principal Keeper of

Sasine Sasine in Scots law is the delivery of feudal property, typically land. Feudal property means immovable property, and includes everything that naturally goes with the property. For land, that would include such things as buildings, trees, and unde ...

s until his death.

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1791 births 1857 deaths Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies UK MPs 1830–1831 UK MPs 1831–1832 UK MPs 1835–1837 UK MPs 1837–1841 UK MPs 1841–1847 Place of birth missing Scottish Tory MPs (pre-1912) Tory MPs (pre-1834) {{Conservative-UK-MP-1790s-stub