David Douglas Cunningham. 



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"would occupy too much space. The more important of them are set out in 

 ' Who's Who,' but he always held that they were conferred on the Expedition 

 rather than upon himself. 



In stature Sir John was short, broad shouldered, with a finely poised, 

 distinguished head. His complexion was fair and his blue eyes piercing. 

 His was a personality that could not be overlooked in any company. He 

 was at times brusque, rather domineering, very confident of his own opinion, 

 and he liked to have his own way, and, indeed, he generally got it, but he 

 was most kind and most helpful to his assistants, and he spent his wealth 

 largely in promoting the advance of science. He was singularly straight- 

 forward and at times almost blunt, but he did not understand or appreciate 

 the methods of the politician. If he was once your friend he remained 

 your friend. Bather late in life he married in 1889 Isabel, only daughter 

 of the late Mr. Thomas Henderson, of the well known Anchor Line of 

 Glasgow. He was a devoted husband and father, and although he had 

 unconventional ideas about the education of his children he was profoundly 

 attached to them, and was never happy unless he had one or other with him. 



Sir John Murray was instantaneously killed in a motor accident near 

 Edinburgh on March 16, 1914. A. E. S. 



DAVID DOUGLAS CUNNINGHAM, 1843-1914. 



David Douglas Cunningham was born at Prestonpans on September 29, 1843, 

 shortly after his father, the Eev. W. B. Cunningham, minister of the parish 

 since 1833, left his manse and followed Dr. Chalmers into the Free Church 

 of Scotland. His paternal grandfather, Captain Bobert Cunningham of the 

 Berwickshire Militia, was himself the grandson of a former minister of 

 Prestonpans, appointed in 1722. Cunningham's mother was the daughter of 

 David Douglas of Beston, Sheriff of Perthshire, afterwards Lord Beston and 

 a senator of the Scottish College of Justice, son of Colonel Bobert Douglas of 

 Strathendrie. His maternal grandmother was a granddaughter of Lord Craigie, 

 Lord- Advocate of Scotland in 1745. She and her husband, who were cousins, 

 both bore the same relationship to Adam Smith, author of the ' Wealth of 

 Nations,' a moiety of whose library Cunningham inherited. 



Cunningham went to school at the Queen Street Institution in Edinburgh, 

 proceeding thence to the University, where he graduated, with honours in 

 Medicine, in 1867. In April 1868 he gained a commission in the Indian 

 Medical Service and entered Netley. 



