CUNNINGHAM. Four brothers of this name, SODS of Allan Cunningham, sought a career in India, two of whom rose to distinction.
Cunningham, J. D., an officer of the Bengal Engineers, an extensive contributor, chiefly on archxological subjects, to the Journal of the I3engal Asiatic Society. A distinguished anti quary, statist, and geographer. Resident at Bhopal ; ob. 1851. Author of Description of Kunawar, in the Bl. As. Trans. xiii. part 1, 1844 ; Ou the Ruins of Putharee, ibid., 1848, xvii. part 1, 305 ; On the Lingam of Bhojpur, ibid. 154 ; Notes on the Antiquities within the Districts of the Bhopal Agency, etc., ibid., 1847, p. 739 ; History of the Scikhs, Lond. 1829 ; Cal. Rev. No. xxii.
Cunningham, General A., of the Bengal Engi neers, author of Discovery of I3uddhist City of Samkassa, Loud. As. Trans. vii. p. 242 ; Journal of a Trip through Kulu and Lahul to the Chumu reri Lake, in Ladakh, Bl. As. Trans. 1818, xvii. 201 ; Memorandum detailing the Boundary be tween the Territories of Maharaja Gulab Singh and British India, etc., ibid. 295 ; Verification
of the Itinerary of Hiwen Thsang through Ariaua and India, ibid. 476 ; Proposed Archazological Investigation, ibid. 535 ; Description of Ancient Gems and Seals from Bactria, the Punjaub, and India, ibid., 1841, 147 ; Essay on the Arian Order of Architecture, as exhibited in the Temples of Kashmir, ibid., 1818, 241 ; Descriptions of, and Deductions from the Consideration of, some new Bactrian Coins, ibid., 1840, ix. pp. 867, 1217 ; Bhilsa Topes, Lond. 1858, In the year 1871 he was appointed Superintendent of the,Archreo logical Survey of India, ancl has printecLannual reports ; subsequently the Rev. James Burgess was appointed to the Survey of the Bombay Presidency.
Colonel Francis Cunningham, the youngest son, joined the .Madras army, and almost immediately took part in the Afghan war, and was in Sale's brigade. He was one of the besieged garrison of Jalalabad.—Dr. Buisi's Catalogue.