Sir Alexander Cunningham of Block

(1650 c.-1730)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Cunningham, Alexander, 1655?-1730 NRA: Cunningham, Alexander (? 1655-1730), critic DNB: Cunningham, Alexander, of Block (1650x60–1730), jurist and scholar LBT ID: AlCunni1730 VIAF ID: 56467568 LOC ID: nr91028234	B/BAP: 1650 DIED: 1730
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
Scottish scholar and bibliographer educated at Edinburgh University; he published an edition of Horace in rivalry with Richard Bentley.
REFERENCES TO Sir Alexander Cunningham of Block: William Field, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of the Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D.; with Biographical Notices of many of his Friends, Pupils, and Contemporaries. 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Ch XXV. Found 1: ¶ 3