John William Cunningham

(1780-1861)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Cunningham, J. W. (John William), 1780-1861 NRA: Cunningham, John William (1780-1861) Vicar of Harrow Editor of "christian Observer" DNB: Cunningham, John William (1780-1861), Church of England clergyman LBT ID: JoCunni1861 VIAF ID: 59493193 LOC ID: n83238539	B/BAP: 1780-01-03 DIED: 1861-09-30
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Evangelical clergyman educated at St John's College, Cambridge; he was rector of Harrow (1811) and wrote a successful novel, The Velvet Cushion (1814). He was a friend of Lady Byron.
REFERENCES TO John William Cunningham: Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley (London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847) The Pisan Circle Found 1: ¶ 1 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chapter XVI. Found 1: ¶ 63