Sir Charles Cunningham (d.1834)

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Sir Charles Cunningham

NationalityBritish
RolesNaval Sailor
First Known Service1775ref:616
FatherCharles Cunninghamref:616
MotherElizabeth Cunninghamref:616
WifeBeatrice Probyref:616
Last Known Service4.5.1829ref:616
Date of Death1834 - Hoxne, Suffolkref:616

Event History

Date from	Date to	Event	Source
1775		Aeolus (32) 1758-1801 British 32 Gun 5th Rate Frigate 1800 Renamed "Guernsey" , Midshipman	ref:616
1779	1780	Hinchingbrooke (28) 1778-1783 British 28 Gun 6th Rate Frigate , Acting Lieutenant	ref:616
6.11.1782		Lieutenant	CSORN
6.11.1782	11.5.1783	Admiral Barrington (14) 1782-1783 British 14 Gun Hired Brig , Lieutenant, and Commanding Officer ADM 6/23/118 Issued by Hugh PigotBritish Naval Sailor Service 1735-1787 , Barbados Confirmed 21.8.1783	ADM 6/23
28.10.1790		Commander	CSORN
28.10.1790	1.10.1791	Ariel (16) 1781-1802 British 16 Gun Unrated Sloop , Commander, and Commanding Officer ADM 6/24/149 Issued by The Hon. William CornwallisBritish Naval Sailor Service 1755-1807 , East Indies Confirmed 6.12.1791	BWAS-1714
13.11.1792	11.10.1793	Speedy (14) 1782-1794 British 14 Gun Unrated Sloop , Commander, and Commanding Officer ADM 6/24/181	BWAS-1714
12.10.1793		Captain	CSORN
12.10.1793		Imperieuse (38) 1793-1858 British 38 Gun 5th Rate Frigate 1803 Renamed "Unite" , Captain, and Commanding Officer ADM 6/25/79 Confirmed 26.8.1794	ADM 6/25
12.10.1793	4.1794	Unite (32) 1796-1802 British 32 Gun 5th Rate Frigate , Captain, and Commanding Officer	ref:616
4.1794	9.1794	Lowestoffe (28) 1761-1801 British 28 Gun 5th Rate Frigate , Captain, and Commanding Officer	BWAS-1714
4.1796	6.1802	Clyde (38) 1796-1805 British 38 Gun 5th Rate Frigate , Captain, and Commanding Officer	BWAS-1793
10.2.1797		Married Beatrice	ref:616
5.1803	9.1803	Prince of Orange Hulk (60) 1734-1810 British 60 Gun 3rd Rate Ship of the Line 1772 Renamed "Prince of Orange Hulk" , Captain, and Commanding Officer	ref:616
9.1803	6.1804	Leopard (50) 1790-1814 British 50 Gun 4th Rate Ship of the Line , as Flag Officer, Commodore,	BWAS-1714
9.1803	1806	Appointed Member of the Victualling Board	ref:616
1806	1823	Appointed Resident Commissioner at Woolwich Dockyard	ref:616
1806	1823	Appointed Resident Commissioner at Deptford Dockyard	ref:616
1823	11.3.1834	Appointed Resident Commissioner at Chatham Dockyard	ref:616
4.5.1829		Superannuated Rear-Admiral	ref:198
24.10.1832		Appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Guelphic Order	ref:1059
6.11.1832		Appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath	ref:616

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Posted by stephen Govier on Sunday 16th of February 2020 16:03

Cunningham has an armorial gravestone inside St Peters Church Eye Suffolk and a hatchment in the tower chamber. He resided at Oaklawn in Hoxne. His coat of arms with a unicorn for a crest are those of a branch of the family in Scotland any ideas to which branch would be of interest.

Posted by Gideon F Engelbrecht on Friday 4th of October 2013 11:29

Sir Charles had a keen interest in lexcographical works viz. Samuel Johnson's Dictionary printed by John Jarvis and sold by John Fielding in 1786 - hence the attachment of his signature to a limited number editions most of which being destroyed by a fire on 7 June 1787 in Jarvis' printing shop

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