Albert Cunningham
Sir Albert Cunningham by Willem Wissing
Died5 September 1691
County Sligo
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Service/branchBritish Army
RankColonel
Commands heldRegiment of dragoons

Sir Albert Cunningham (or Conyngham) (died 5 September 1691) was the first Colonel of a regiment of dragoons which evolved to become the 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons.

He was one of the twenty-seven children of Alexander Cunningham, Dean of Raphoe, who emigrated to Ireland from Scotland, and Marian Murray, daughter of John Murray of Broughton, Edinburgh.[1] He married Margaret Leslie, daughter of Henry Leslie, Bishop of Meath, and Jane Swinton, and had one son, Henry.[2]

Military career

Cunningham became Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance in Ireland in 1660.[3] He stood down from that role in 1687 and went on to raise a regiment of dragoons in 1689.[4] He fought on the side of Prince William of Orange at the Battle of the Boyne in July 1690 and the Siege of Limerick in August 1691.[5] He was killed by a Roman Catholic soldier while being held as a prisoner of war[6] near Collooney in County Sligo on 5 September 1691.[7]

A portrait of Cunningham is at Springhill House.[8]

References

  1. ↑ Mosley, Charles, editor Burke's Peerage 107th edition Wilmington, Delaware 2003 Vol.1 p.879
  2. ↑ Burke's Peerage Vol.1 p.879
  3. ↑ Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Retrieved 6 August 2016.
  4. ↑ "The Inniskillings (6th Dragoons)". Regiments.org. Archived from the original on 18 January 2008. Retrieved 6 August 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  5. ↑ Cannon, Richard (1847). Historical Record of the Sixth, Or Inniskilling Regiment of Dragoons. Parker, Furnivall and Parker. p. 25. Albert Cunningham siege of limerick.
  6. ↑ "6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons". Retrieved 6 August 2016.
  7. ↑ Cannon, Richard (1847). Historical Record of the Sixth, Or Inniskilling Regiment of Dragoons. Parker, Furnivall and Parker. p. 30. Albert Cunningham siege of limerick.
  8. ↑ "Lieutenant-General Sir Albert Conyngham (d.1691) | Art UK". artuk.org.
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