Alexander Pringle of Whytbank

(1747-1827)

LBT ID: AlPring1827	B/BAP: 1747 DIED: 1827
SOURCES: George Tancred, The Annals of a Border Club (the Jedforest) (1899) 443; James C. Corson, Notes and Index to Grierson's Letters of Scott
After serving in the navy and the civil service in Madras, India, he retired to Whytbank in 1783 where he and his sons were friends of Walter Scott.
REFERENCES TO Alexander Pringle of Whytbank: Walter Scott to John Leyden, 25 August 1811 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ n2 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter XI 1811 Found 1: ¶ n2 Chapter XI 1820 Found 1: ¶ n1