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]

References

1. Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (Third ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 376–377. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
2. Clan MacFarlane
3. "Fasti ecclesiæ hibernicæ: the succession of the prelates in Ireland" Vol 3 p361: Cotton, H; Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1860
4. Mosley, Charles ed. Burke's Peerage 107th edition Wilmington, Delaware 2003 Vol.1 p. 879
5. Burke's Peerage Vol.1 p.879

Church of Ireland titles
Preceded by Archibald Adair	Dean of Raphoe 1630–1660	Succeeded by John Leslie