William Mather Rutherford Pringle (22 January 1874 – 1 April 1928) was a Liberal Party

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 politician in the United Kingdom

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 who served as a Member of Parliament

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 (MP) from 1910 to 1918 and again from 1922 to 1924.

Pringle was educated at Glasgow University and was called to the Bar of the Middle Temple

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 in 1904.

Pringle was elected as member for Lanarkshire North West in January 1910, holding the seat until its abolition in 1918.
Pringle unsuccessfully contested Glasgow Springburn

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 at the 1918 general election

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 and Rusholme

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 at a by-election

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 in 1919.

At the 1924 general election

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 he was elected as Member of Parliament

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 for Penistone

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 in Yorkshire

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, defeating the sitting Labour

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 MP William Gillis, who had narrowly beaten Pringle to win the seat at a by-election

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 in 1921. Pringle held the seat in 1923

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, but was defeated at the 1924 general election

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 by Labour's Rennie Smith

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.

After his 1924 defeat, he stood in the 1925 Ayr Burghs

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 by-election, but finished a poor third and did not stand for Parliament

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 again.

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