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Albert Cunningham

Albert Cunningham

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Colonel Sir Albert Cunningham (died 5 September 1691) was an Anglo-Irish military officer who fought in the Williamite War in Ireland. He was one of the twenty-seven children of Alexander Cunningham, Dean of Raphoe, who emigrated to Ireland from Scotland, and Marian Murray, daughter of John Murray of Broughton, Edinburgh.[1] He married Margaret Leslie, daughter of Henry Leslie, Bishop of Meath, and Jane Swinton, and had one son, Henry.[2]

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Cunningham became Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance in Ireland in 1660.[3] He stood down from that role in 1687 and went on to raise Cunningham's Dragoons in 1689.[4] He fought on the side of Prince William of Orange at the Battle of the Boyne in July 1690 and the Siege of Limerick in August 1691.[5] He was murdered by an Irish Catholic soldier while being held as a prisoner of war[6] near Collooney in County Sligo on 5 September 1691.[7]

A portrait of Cunningham is at Springhill House.[8]

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    Mosley, Charles, editor Burke's Peerage 107th edition Wilmington, Delaware 2003 Vol.1 p.879
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    Burke's Peerage Vol.1 p.879
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    Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Retrieved 6 August 2016.
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    "The Inniskillings (6th Dragoons)". Regiments.org. Archived from the original on 18 January 2008. Retrieved 6 August 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
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    Cannon, Richard (1847). Historical Record of the Sixth, Or Inniskilling Regiment of Dragoons. Parker, Furnivall and Parker. p. 25. Albert Cunningham siege of limerick.
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    "6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons". Retrieved 6 August 2016.
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    Cannon, Richard (1847). Historical Record of the Sixth, Or Inniskilling Regiment of Dragoons. Parker, Furnivall and Parker. p. 30. Albert Cunningham siege of limerick.
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    "Lieutenant-General Sir Albert Conyngham (d.1691) | Art UK". artuk.org.
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