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, who emigrated to Ireland from Scotland, and Marian Murray, daughter of John Murray of Broughton, Edinburgh. He married Margaret Leslie, daughter of Henry Leslie,

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, and Jane Swinton, and had one son, Henry.

Military career

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at the Battle of the Boyne in July 1690 and the Siege of Limerick in August 1691. He was killed by a Roman Catholic soldier while being held as a

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near Collooney in

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on 5 September 1691. A portrait of Cunningham is at

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References

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