Alexander Cunningham (or Cunninghame) Wallace Dunlop or Alexander Cunningham Fairlie Wallace-Dunlop (16 June 1809 – 21 June 1852) was a nominee member of the

Victorian Legislative Council The Victorian Legislative Council (VLC) is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of Victoria, Australia, the lower house being the Legislative Assembly. Both houses sit at Parliament House in Spring Street, Melbourne. The Legislative C ...

from November 1851 until his death 7 months later. Dunlop was born in West Lothian, Scotland to Anthony Dunlop (from Ellerslie,

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) and Anne Cunningham. Arriving in the

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in the 1840s, he became a

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in 1851. 31 October 1851 Dunlop was nominated to the Victorian Legislative Council. His nomination to the Legislative Council was announced in the ''Victoria Government Gazette'' of 5 November 1851. Dunlop died in Melbourne, his funeral was held on 24 June 1852. He was replaced in the Council by

Joseph Anderson Joseph Inslee Anderson (November 5, 1757 – April 17, 1837) was an American soldier, judge, and politician, who served as a United States Senator from Tennessee from 1797 to 1815, and later as the First Comptroller of the United States Treasur ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Dunlop, Alexander Cunningham 1809 births 1852 deaths Members of the Victorian Legislative Council Scottish emigrants to colonial Australia 19th-century Australian politicians