Alexander Cunningham

CUNNINGHAM, ALEXANDER (c. Scottish classical scholar and critic, was born in Ayrshire. It is probable that he completed his education at Leyden or Utrecht. He was tutor to the son of the first duke of Queensberry, through whose influence he was appointed professor of civil law in the University of Edinburgh until 171o, when he left England for The Hague, where he resided until his death. He is chiefly known for his edition of Horace (17 2I) with notes, mostly critical, which in cluded a volume of Animadversiones upon Richard Bentley's notes and emendations. Cunningham also edited the works of Virgil and Phaedrus (together with the Sententiae of Publilius Syrus and others).

Life by D. Irving

in Lives of Scottish Writers (1839) The above must not be confused with ALEXANDER CUNNING HAM, British minister to Venice (1715-172o), a learned historian and author of The History of Great Britain (from 1688 to the accession of George I.), originally written in Latin and published in an English translation of ter his death.