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Colonel Sir John Wallace Pringle CB, FRGS (1863 - 16 July 1938) was Chief Inspecting Officer of the Railways Inspectorate of the Ministry of Transport from 1916 to 1929. As such he was in charge of investigations into a number of serious railway accidents in the UK. ==Early career== Pringle became a lieutenant in the Royal Engineers in 1883.〔 As an army officer, Pringle fought in the Third Anglo-Burmese War, 1885-1886.〔 In the Uganda railway survey between 1891 and 1892, Pringle was second in command to James Macdonald. The survey's findings confirmed that the caravan route to the Great Rift Valley was the best path for the line, followed by the easiest gradient to be found over the Mau Escarpment and down to Lake Victoria. Macdonald and Pringle recommended construction of a three-foot six inch gauge railway. They suggested that Kikuyuland would be a suitable place for whites to live, and their civilizing effect would drive out slavery, but the railway was needed to give access to the new colony. Pringle became a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.〔 He received the Gill Memorial from this society in 1895 for his work on the Uganda railway survey.〔 In 1896 he was appointed superintending engineer on the survey and construction of the Hyderabad-Godavari Valley Railway.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Wallace Pringle」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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