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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

^ 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.
^ Clan MacFarlane
^ "Fasti ecclesiæ hibernicæ: the succession of the prelates in Ireland" Vol 3 p361: Cotton, H; Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1860
^ Mosley, Charles ed. Burke's Peerage 107th edition Wilmington, Delaware 2003 Vol.1 p. 879
^ Burke's Peerage Vol.1 p.879