Daniel John Cunningham, FRS,FRSE,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
Crieff Academy he studied medicine at the
University of Edinburgh, where he qualified as Bachelor of Medicine and Master of Surgery (M.B. C.M.) with first-class honours in 1874 and attained his M.D. in 1876, receiving a gold medal for his thesis.[5] From 1876 until 1882 he acted as a demonstrator for his professor at the university. After one year as Professor of Anatomy at the
Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland (in Dublin) he moved to the chair of Anatomy 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 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 Cemetery in
Edinburgh, close to the
Dean Gallery entrance.
^Kaufman, MH (February 2008). "Daniel John Cunningham (1850–1909): anatomist and textbook author, whose sons achieved distinction in the Army, Navy and Indian Medical Service". J Med Biogr. 16 (1): 30–5.
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^Cunningham, J. D. (1876). Spinal nervous system of the cetacea: with an account of a hitherto undescribed variety of dolphin (Thesis). University of Edinburgh.
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1842/23828.
^Addison, Henry Robert; Lawson, William John; Oakes, Charles Henry; Sladen, Douglas Brooke Wheelton (1907).
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