James Pringle of Torwoodlee

(1783-1859)

LBT ID: JaPring1859	B/BAP: 1783 DIED: 1859
SOURCES: George Tancred, The Annals of a Border Club (the Jedforest) (1899) 443; Corson, Notes and Index to Grierson's Letters of Scott
The son of James Pringle of Torwoodlee; after entering the Navy in 1797 he captured three French privateers as Captain of the Sparrowhawk, and retired as rear-admiral in 1846.
REFERENCES TO James Pringle of Torwoodlee: Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter XII 1815 Found 1: ¶ 8 Chapter XIII 1824-25 Found 1: ¶ 40