CUNARD, SIR SAMUEL, BART. (1787-1865), British civil engineer, founder of the Cunard line of steamships, was born at Halifax, Nova Scotia, on Nov. 21, 1787. In conjunction with Messrs. Burns of Glasgow and Messrs. Maclver of Liverpool, proprietors of rival lines of coasting steamers between Glasgow and Liverpool, he formed a company to carry out the British Government's proposal to substitute steam- for sailing-vessels in the trans-Atlantic mail service. The first voyage of a Cunard steamship was successfully made by the "Britannia" from Liver pool to Boston, U.S.A., between July 4 and 19, 184o. Cunard was created a baronet in 1859. He died on April 28, 1865.