Cuningham

Cuningham

(also spelled Cuninghame, Cunyngham; etc.), the family name of many Scotch clergymen. (See Cunningham).

1. ADAM, was licensed to preach in 1831; presented to the living at Eskdalemuir in 1835, and ordained in 1836; transferred to Crailing in 1843. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 1:635.

2. ALEXANDER (1), took his degree at the University of St. Andrews in 1631; was presented by the king to the living at Ettrick in 1641; refused to conform to episcopacy in 1662, and settled on his estate at Hyndhope, where his descendants resided two centuries afterwards. His son Alexander was minister to Venice, and was author of the History of Great Britain, from 1688 to the Accession of George I, translated from the Latin in 1787 by Dr. William Thompson. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 1:546.

3. ALEXANDER (2), took his degree at Glasgow University in 1646; was admitted to the. living at Glasserton before 1664, and died before 1674. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 1:731.

4. ALEXANDER (3), took his degree at Edinburgh University in 1663; was appointed to the living at Colmonell in 1666; transferred to Monkton in 1676; ousted by the people at the Revolution in 1688, and died in 1692, aged about forty-nine years. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 1:756; 2:128.

5. ALEXANDER (4), born at Glengarnock, was appointed to the living at Dreghorn in 1695, and ordained. He died in August, 1712, aged forty- seven years. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 2:164.

6. CHARLES (1), was licensed to preach in 1729; presented to the living at Tranetut in 1739; ordained in 1740, and died April 4, 1793, aged ninety- one years. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 1:360.

7. CHARLES (2), was licensed to preach in 1795; presented to the living at Lundie and Fowlis in 1797; ordained in 1798; transferred to Dailly in 1806, and died August 10, 1815. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 2:108; 3:718.

8. David (1), was in orders prior to the Reformation, and in 1562 was the first Protestant minister at Lanark, with a pension for life provided by the pope's bull from Rome. He was transferred to Lesmahago in 1570, thence to Cadder in 1572, and in 1574 had Monkland and Leinzie in charge; was joint visitor for Clydesdale, Renfrew, and Lennox in 1576, and was one of those who drew up the heads of policy in the second book of discipline. He was elevated to the bishopric of Aberdeen in 1577, the first of the reformed religion. He was commissioner for Aberdeen and Banff in 1578; accused of scandal in 1586; appointed visitor of King's College in 1594, and died August 30, 1600. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 2:49, 306, 327; 3:462, 466, 884, 887.

9. DAVID (2), took his degree at Glasgow University in 1600; was presented to the living at Dunscore in 1609; was a member of the Court of High Commission in 1610, and again in 1619; transferred to Percietown in 1613, and continued there in 1631. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 1:578; 2:272, 345.

10. DAVID (3), took his degree at Glasgow University in 1650; was admitted to the living at Cambuslang in 1663, and died about 1688. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 2:272, 273.

11. Gabriel (1), took his degree at Glasgow University in 1632; was admitted to the living at Kilsyth in 1637, and died in September 1665, aged about fifty-four years. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 2:72.

12. GABRIEL (2), took his degree at Glasgow University in 1642; was presented to the living at Dunlop in 1648; deprived in 1664 for not conforming to episcopacy, but restored in 1672. In 1674 he was charged with being a conventicle preacher; was called before the privy council in 1677 for not obeying the rules; and in 1683 was denounced, put to the horn, his movable goods seized, and his stipend given to the widow of another minister; but returned to his living in 1687, and was restored by act of parliament in 1690. He preached the opening sermon of the first General Assembly after the Revolution; was on the committee for visiting colleges, and died in May 1691, aged about sixty-nine years. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 2:166.

13. GEORGE, was born April 24, 1766; licensed to preach in 1790; for some time taught in an academy at Westruther; presented to the living at Dunse in 1797, and ordained. He died suddenly, January 9, 1847.

14. HUGH, was licensed to preach in 1781; presented to the living at Tranent as successor to his uncle Charles in 1784, and died July 20, 1801. He published A Short Explanation Of The Ten Commandments: — Sermon On The Death Of His Mother: — Account Of The Parish. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 1:360.

15. James (1), took his degree at Glasgow University in 1579; was reader at Dumbarton in 1585 and 1586; was appointed the first Protestant minister at Bonhill in 1588; continued in 1591; transferred to Cardross in 1596, and died before May 10, 1603, aged forty-four years. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 2:346.

16. JAMES (2), took his degree at Glasgow University in 1602; was presented to the living at Buchanan in 1604; transferred to Dunlop in 1606, thence to Cumnock in 1608; was a commissioner to reside at Edinburgh for the ministers at the Tables in 1637; a member of the Commissions of Assemblies in 1643 and 1644, and died about the latter date, aged sixty- three years. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 2:103, 166, 348.

17. JAMES (3), took his degree at the University of St. Andrews in 1648, residing in Edinburgh; was called to the living at Lasswade in 1659, and ordained; deprived by act of parliament in 1662, after the Restoration. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 1:290.

18. JAMES (4), took his degree, at Edinburgh University in 1701; was licensed to preach in 1709; called to the living at Smailholm in 1710, and ordained. He died May 12, 1743, aged about sixty-two years. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 1:532.

19. JOHN (1), was admitted to baptize and solemnize marriages at Kirkmichael, in 1567; presented to the vicarage of Kirkcudbright-Innlertig in April 1571, where he was probably reader; promoted to the living at Dailly in 1574; admitted in 1575, having also Girvan and Kirkoswald under his care; removed to Girvan as the first Protestant minister there in 1590; continued in 1608, and died before April 6, 1612. See Fasti Ecdes. Scoticanae, 2:106, 116.

20. JOHN (2), took his degree at Glasgow University in 1595; was admitted to the living at Houston in 1599; transferred to Kilallan in 1602, thence to Dairy in 1604, and died in April 1635, aged about sixty years. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 2:161, 214, 217.

21. JOHN (3), took his degree at Glasgow University in 1621; was admitted to the living at Lecropt in 1627, and resigned in 1637. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 2:732.

22. JOHN (4), was presented to the living at Old Cumnock in 1647, and admitted; refusing to conform to episcopacy after the Restoration, in 1662, was confined to his parish, and died in October 1668. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 2:103.

23. JOHN (5), was born at Enterkin; took his degree at Glasgow University in 1665; became curate to the bishop of the diocese, and was called to the living at Parton. He was accused before the privy council, in 1676, of holding conventicles at Bladenoch, Glenluce; was ousted by the people in 1689, and deprived by act of parliament, in 1690, restoring Presbyterian ministers. He died the same year, aged about fortyfive years. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 1:719.

24. JOHN (6), was licensed to preach in 1755; called to the living at Dalmellington in 1756, and ordained; transferred to Monkton and Prestwick in 1762, and died May 28, 1774, aged forty-four years. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 2:110, 129.

25. John Macpherson, AM was licensed to preach in 1809; presented to the living at Newtyle in 1815, and ordained; transferred to Kinglassie in 1818, and died September 8, 1847, aged sixty years. His son Hugh was a clergyman in the Church of England, near Durham. He published A Short Address to the Congregation at Kirkcaldy (1845). See Fasti Eccles. Scoticance, 2:549; 3:758.

26. Patrick took his degree at Edinburgh University in 1666, residing in Hawick; was licensed to preach in 1684; presented to the living at Lochrutton the same year, and ordained; transferred to Kirktown in 1687, and died about 1706. See Iasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 1:504, 595.

27. Richard son of the minister at Dreghorn, was licensed to preach in 1730; called to the living at Symington in 1733, and ordained. He died November 4, 1760, aged fifty-six years. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 2:145, 146.

28. Robert (1), took his degree at Glasgow University in 1608; was licensed to preach in 1617; admitted to the living at Hawick in 1625; was a member of the General Assembly in 1638, of the Commission in 1647, and died after October 8, 1656. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticancae, 1:496.

29. ROBERT (2), took his degree at Edinburgh University in 1642; was admitted to the living at Ashkirk in 1649; deprived after the Restoration by act of parliament in 1662; indulged by the privy council in 1669; suspended again, but restored in 1689, and continued in 1690. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 1:542.

30. ROBERT (3), took his degree at Edinburgh University in 1689; was licensed to preach in 1693; called to the living at Wilton in 1694, and ordained; joined with three, others in 1703 in a dissent against an act of the synod on the government of the Church; was transferred to Hawick in. 1712; went to Cornwall, England, for his health, in July, 1721, and died August 5, 1722, aged about fifty-four years. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 1:498, 517.

31. Samuel secretary to his cousin, the archbishop of St. Andrews, in 1591, and afterwards schoolmaster at Forgan; was licensed to preach in 1611; presented to the living at Ferryport-on-Craig in 1615, subscribed to the covenant at Edinburgh in 1638, but was deposed for insufficiency, and died before October 1, 1641. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 2:427.

32. WILLIAM (1), was appointed to the living at West Kilbride in 1658; deprived by the privy council in 1662, and died in January, 1669. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 2:190.

33. WILLIAM (2), was licensed to preach in 1681; presented to the living at Lochwinnoch in 1683, and deprived in 1689 for disloyalty to the king and queen. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 2:225.

34. WILLIAM (3), took his degree at the University of St. Andrews in 1692; was licensed to preach in 1700; called to the living at Kembach in 1702, and ordained; and died before November 20, 1728, aged about fifty- seven years. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 2:433.

35. WILLIAM (4), son of the foregoing, took his degree at the University of St. Andrews in 1725; had a bursary; was licensed to preach in. 1731; presented to the living at Mouswald in 1736; ordained in 1737; transferred to Durrisdeer in 1743; thence to Sanquhar in 1753; and died August 25, 1758. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 1:659, 674, 684.

36. William Bruce was licensed to preach in 1831; presented to the living of Prestonpans in 1833, and ordained. He joined the Free Secession in 1843. He published, Collegiate Education Versus Collegiate Extension (1850): — Friendly Hints, a tract: — An Account Of The Parish. He was living in 1860. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 1:353.