| 词条 | William Henry Pringle |
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|name=Sir William Henry Pringle |birth_date=21 August 1772 |death_date=23 December 1840 |birth_place=Dublin |death_place= |image=William Henry Pringle by Plimer.png |image_size=240px |caption=William Henry Pringle by Andrew Plimer |nickname= |allegiance= {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} United Kingdom |serviceyears= 1792–1840 |rank=Lieutenant General |branch= British Army |commands= |unit=27th (Inniskilling) Regiment of Foot |battles= Peninsular War |awards= Order of the Bath |laterwork=Member of Parliament }} Lieutenant-General Sir William Henry Pringle GCB (21 August 1772[1] – 23 December 1840) was a British Army officer who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for two constituencies in Cornwall. [2] He was born the eldest son of Maj-Gen. Henry Pringle, of Dublin and educated privately and at Trinity College, Dublin. He joined the British Army as a cornet and progressed to the rank of Colonel of the 64th Foot in 1816. Further promotion to Lieutenant-General followed before he was transferred as Colonel for life in 1837 to the 45th Regiment of Foot. He was made KCB in 1815 and GCB in 1834. He was MP for St Germans from 1812 to 1818, and then for Liskeard from 1818 to 1832. He died in 1840. He had married Harriet Hester Eliot on 20 May 1806[3] (the daughter and heiress of Hon. Edward James Eliot) with whom he had a son and 4 daughters. References1. ^Diary of Maj Gen Henry Pringle 2. ^ {{cite web|url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/pringle-william-henry-1771-1840|title=PRINGLE, William Henry (?1771-1840), of 17 Stratford Place, Marylebone, Mdx.|publisher= History of Parliament Online|accessdate=13 July 2016}} 3. ^http://eliotsofporteliot.com/pringles/index.html
| title = Member of Parliament for St Germans | with=Henry Goulburn | years = 1812–1818 | before = Charles Philip Yorke | before2=Matthew Montagu | after = Seymour Thomas Bathurst | after2=Charles Arbuthnot }}{{succession box | title = Member of Parliament for Liskeard | with = William Eliot 1812–26 | with2 = Edward Eliot 1826–32 | years = 1812–1832 | before = William Eliot | before2=Charles Philip Yorke | after = Charles Buller }} |-{{s-mil}}{{s-bef|before=Henry Wynyard}}{{s-ttl|title=Colonel of the 64th (2nd Staffordshire) Regiment of Foot|years=1816–1837}}{{s-aft|after= Sir Richard Bourke}}{{s-end}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Pringle, William Henry}}{{UK-army-bio-stub}}{{England-UK-MP-stub}} 12 : 1770s births|1840 deaths|British Army generals|British Army personnel of the Napoleonic Wars|Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath|Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for constituencies in Cornwall|UK MPs 1812–18|UK MPs 1818–20|UK MPs 1820–26|UK MPs 1826–30|UK MPs 1830–31|UK MPs 1831–32 |
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