Cunningham, Henry

Education

M.A. and M.D. 3.7.1753 by examination.

Birth/childhood

Possibly son of John Cunningham of Balbougie, Fife.

Career

Medical student at Edinburgh University 1741 & 1743.

Surgeon 20th Foot 1744 -1752 (resigned). Surgeon Earl of Sutherland’s Regt. 1760. [Doctor]

Went to St Augustine, East Florida before 1771.

Death

Died there [St Augustine, East Florida, U.S.A.] 23.2.1771.

Sources

  • W. Johnston, Roll of commissioned officers in the Medical Service of the British Army 1727-1898 (Aberdeen, 1917) 270
  • Dobson iv
  • Whyte 1238
  • Scots Magazine 1771 331