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See also:CUNNINGHAM, See also:ALEXANDER (c.1655-173o) , Scottish classical See also:scholar and critic, was See also:born in See also:Ayrshire. Very little is known of his uneventful See also:life. It is probable that he completed his See also:education at See also:Leiden or See also:Utrecht. He was See also:tutor to the son of the first See also:duke of See also:Queensberry, through whose See also:influence he was appointed See also:professor of See also:civil See also:law in the university of See also:Edinburgh. In 1710, the Edinburgh magistrates, regarding the university patronage as their See also:privilege, appointed another professor, ignoring the See also:appointment of Cunningham, who had been installed in the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office for at least ten years. Cunningham thereupon See also:left See also:England for the See also:Hague, where he resided until his See also:death. He is chiefly known for his edition of See also:Horace (1721) with notes, mostly See also:critical, which included a See also:volume of Animadversiones upon See also:Richard See also:Bentley's notes and emendations. They marked him as one of the most able critics of Bentley's (in many cases) rash and See also:taste-less conjectural alterations of the See also:text. Cunningham also edited the See also:works of See also:Virgil and See also:Phaedrus (together with the Sententiae of See also:Publilius Syrus and others). He had also been engaged for some years in the preparation of an edition of the See also:Pandects and of a See also:work on See also:Christian evidences.
Life by D. See also:Irving in Lives of Scottish Writers (1839).
The above must not be confused with Alexander Cunningham, See also:British See also:minister to See also:Venice (1715-1720), a learned historian and author of The See also:History of See also:Great See also:Britain (from 1688 to the See also:accession of See also:George I.), originally written in Latin and published in an See also:English See also:translation after his death.
End of Article: CUNNINGHAM, ALEXANDER (c.1655-173o)
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