Background
Alexander Cunningham was born in Ayrshire. Very little is known of his uneventful life.
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Alexander Cunningham
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It is probable that Alexander Cunningham completed his education at Leiden 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.
Career
Cunningham thereupon left England for the Hague, where he resided until his death.
He is chiefly known for his edition of Horace (1721) with notes, mostly critical, which included 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).
He had also been engaged for some years in the preparation of an edition of the Pandects and of a work on Christian evidences. Life by D. Irving in Lives of Scottish Writers (1839).
The above must not be confused with Alexander Cunningham, British minister to Venice (1715 - 1720), a learned historian and author, of The History of Great Britain firom 1688 to the accession of George I. ), originally written in Latin and published in an English translation after his death.
