Alexander Cunningham (priest)

Alexander Cunningham (died 3 September 1660) was a 17th-century Scottish Anglican priest in Ireland.^[1]

Cunningham was born in Scotland.^[2] He held livings at Inver and Killymard; and was Dean of Raphoe from 1630 to 1660.^[3]

He married Marion Murray, daughter of John Murray of Broughton, Edinburgh, and had an enormous family (twenty-seven by some accounts), many of whom died young.^[4] Nine children reached adulthood, including-

• General Sir Albert Cunningham (later generations spelt the name Conyngham)
• Alexander
• Margaret, who married the Reverend Alexander Montgomery, Prebendary of Doe, County Donegal: they were the grandparents of Colonel Alexander Montgomery
• Catherine, who married John Leslie, Bishop of Clogher, and had several children.^[5]