Daniel John Cunningham

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Daniel John Cunningham
18 Grosvenor Crescent, Edinburgh
Cunningham grave, Dean Cemetery

Daniel John Cunningham,

FRAI (15 April 1850 – 23 July 1909) was a Scottish physician, zoologist, and anatomist, famous for Cunningham's Text-book of Anatomy and Cunningham's Manual of Practical Anatomy.[1]

Biography

Cunningham was born in the manse at Crieff, the son of the Very Rev John Cunningham (1819–1893) and of his wife Susan Porteous Murray.[2] His father became Moderator of the General Assembly in 1886.[3][4]

Following education at

Trinity College, Dublin, which he held from 1883 to 1903. On the appointment of Sir William Turner to the post of Principal and Vice-Chancellor at the University of Edinburgh he was invited to succeed him as Professor of Anatomy and he held that post from 1903 until his death.[6][7]
His Text-book of Anatomy, first published in 1902, went through 15 editions under various editors: the first three editions were prepared under Cunningham's editorship.

He was at various times president of the

Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland, the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, the Royal Society (1891) and the Royal Society of Edinburgh.[9]

In 1878 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir William Turner, John Hutton Balfour, Alexander Crum Brown, and James Bryce.[10] In 1887 he was elected a member of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh[11][12] and in 1904 he was elected a member of the Aesculapian Club.[13]

He died unexpectedly at home, 18 Grosvenor Crescent in Edinburgh's West End, on 23 July 1909 and was buried with his wife, Elizabeth, and children near the eastern side of

Dean Gallery
entrance.

His position as professor of anatomy was filled by Arthur Robinson.[14]

Family

In 1878, he married Elizabeth Cumming Browne, eldest daughter of Rev Andrew Browne, minister of the parish of

FRSE (1873–1952), a prominent neurologist and son of Byrom Bramwell.[17]

Publications

  • Manual of Practical Anatomy
  • Textbook of Anatomy
  • Report on the Anatomy of the Marsupials, H.M.S. Challenger Reports, Part XVI
  • The Lumbar Curve in Man & Apes: Cunningham Memoir No.2, (1886) Royal Irish Academy.
  • The Spinal Nervous System of the Porpoise & Dolphin (1876) J Anat Physiol.

References

  1. S2CID 7428475
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  2. ISBN 090219884X. Archived from the original
    (PDF) on 24 January 2013. Retrieved 18 September 2015.
  3. S2CID 7428475
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  4. ^ "Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae: The succession of ministers in the Church of Scotland from the reformation". 1915.
  5. hdl:1842/23828
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  6. PMC 1289218
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  7. ^ Addison, Henry Robert; Lawson, William John; Oakes, Charles Henry; Sladen, Douglas Brooke Wheelton (1907). "Cunningham, Daniel John". Who's Who. 59: 426.
  8. ^ "Officers of the Anatomical Society" (PDF).
  9. PMC 2320184
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  10. ISBN 090219884X. Archived from the original
    (PDF) on 24 January 2013. Retrieved 18 September 2015.
  11. ^ Watson Wemyss, Herbert Lindesay (1933). A Record of the Edinburgh Harveian Society. T&A Constable, Edinburgh.
  12. ^ Minute Books of the Harveian Society. Library of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
  13. ^ Minute Books of the Aesculapian Club. Library of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
  14. ^ "Robinson, Arthur (1862–1948)".
  15. ^ Wikisource This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gibson, George Alexander (1912). "Cunningham, Daniel John". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  16. ISBN 090219884X. Archived from the original
    (PDF) on 24 January 2013. Retrieved 18 September 2015.
  17. ISBN 090219884X. Archived from the original
    (PDF) on 24 January 2013. Retrieved 18 September 2015.

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