Lieutenant-General Sir William Henry Pringle GCB (21 August 1772 – 23 December 1840) was a British Army officer who served as a

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(MP) for two constituencies in

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. He was born the eldest son of Maj-Gen. Henry Pringle, of Dublin and educated privately and at

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. He joined the British Army as a cornet and progressed to the rank of Colonel of the

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in 1816. Further promotion to Lieutenant-General followed before he was transferred as Colonel for life in 1837 to the

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. He was made KCB in 1815 and GCB in 1834. He was MP for St Germans from 1812 to 1818, and then for

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from 1818 to 1832. He died in 1840. He had married Harriet Hester Eliot on 20 May 1806 (the daughter and heiress of Hon. Edward James Eliot) with whom he had a son and 4 daughters.

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