Robert Abercrombie Pringle (15 December 1855 – 9 January 1922) was a Canadian lawyer and politician.

Born in Cornwall, Canada West, the son of Jacob Farrand Pringle and Isabella Fraser, (daughter of Col. Alexander Fraser), Pringle was educated in public and high schools and Queen's University.

[citation needed] During the 1907 financial panic, Pringle wrote a criticism of the Canadian banking System.

Another MP, banker Robert Bickerdike, took him to task, and put such pressure on him through negative articles in the media of the time that Pringle backed down.

The next time the bank charters were renewed, instead of addressing the laxness of regulation that had led to the panic, several changes were made to suit the bankers.