Cunningham John

Cunningham, John, D.D., LL.D., Scottish divine, was born at Paisley in 1819, and was educated at the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh. In 1845 he became minister of the parish of Crieff, and in 1886, on the death of Principal Tulloch, of St. Mary's College, St. Andrew's, was nominated his successor. Besides contributing to numerous magazines, including Macmillan's Magazine, the Westminster, Edinburgh, and North British Reviews. he was the author of the Church History of Scotland (1859), The Quakers, The Growth of the Church in its Organisation and Institutions. He died in 1893.