Dr John Pringle FRSE FGS (21 October 1877 - 2 August 1948) was a Scottish geologist who won the Geological Society of London's Lyell Medal in 1938.[1]
He was born in Selkirk on 21 October 1877 and studied geology at Heriot Watt College in Edinburgh, graduating around 1900.
From 1901 he worked for HM Geological Survey, initially as a fossil collector. In 1913 he became Assistant Palaeontologist to the Survey.
The University of Wales awarded him an honorary doctorate (DSc) in 1931. In 1932 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Murray Macgregor, James Ernest Richey, James Phemister and Robert Campbell.[2]
In 1934 he became the official Palaeontologist to the Survey. In 1935, he published British Regional Geology: The South of Scotland.[3] He retired in 1937 and died on 2 August 1948.