Six discourses, delivered by Sir John Pringle ... when President of the Royal Society; on occasion of six annual assignments of Sir Godfrey Copley's Medal. To which is prefixed the life of the author / By Andrew Kippis [the editor].

  • Pringle, John, Sir, 1707-1782
Date:
1783
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Credit: Six discourses, delivered by Sir John Pringle ... when President of the Royal Society; on occasion of six annual assignments of Sir Godfrey Copley's Medal. To which is prefixed the life of the author / By Andrew Kippis [the editor]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    received at home, under a private tutor; and after having made fuch a progrefs as qualified him for academical ftudies, he was removed to the liniverfity of St* Andrews, where he was put under the immediate Care of Mr. Francis Pringle, profefTor of Greek in the college, and a near relation of his father. Having con- tinued here forrie years, he went to Edin- burgh, in October 1727, for the purpofe of ftudying phyfic, that being the fprofef- Pringle, was Sir Walter Pringle, Knight, one of the fenators of the college of juftice at Edinburgh, un- der the title of Lord Newhall. This gentleman was eminently diftinguifhed by his abilities and virtues 5 having been efteemed, in his time, as an ornament to> the bench and the profeffion of the law, and as the pride and boaft of his family and country. A cha« rafter was drawn of him by the late Lord Prefident Arnifton, and publifhed in the Scots Magazine. He died on the 13th of December, 1736; and an epitaph was written on him by Hamilton of Bangour, which is inferted in that Author’s volume of poems. There is, likewife, an engraved Portrait of Sir Walter Pringle; 91 2 fion