Person

Cunningham, Richard (1793 - 1835)

Born
12 February 1793
Wimbledon, Surrey, England
Died
15 March 1835
New South Wales, Australia
Occupation
Botanic gardens director and Botanist

Summary

Richard Cunningham was Superintendent of Sydney Botanic Garden and Colonial Botanist 1832 - 1835. He visited New Zealand in 1833 - 1834 and was killed while on T.L. Mitchell's 1835 expedition to ascertain the course of the Darling River.

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Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

  • Australian Botanists - Biographies, MS 064; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details

Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales

  • Richard Cunningham - Records, 1835; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details

Published resources

Books

  • MacInnis, Peter, Curious Minds: the Discoveries of Australian Naturalists (Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2012), 213 pp. Pages 82-87. Details

Book Sections

  • Lucas, A. M., 'Richard Cunnigham, 1793-1835' in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004). Details
  • Parsons, Vivenne, 'Cunningham, Richard (1793-1835), botanist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 1: 1788 - 1850 A-H, Douglas Pike, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1966), pp. 268-269. https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/cunningham-richard-1943. Details

Journal Articles

  • Froggatt, Walter W., 'The Curators and Botanists of the Botanic Gardens, Sydney.', Royal Australian Historical Society, xviii (III) (1932), 101-133. Details

Resources

See also

  • Maiden, J. H., Sydney Botanic Gardens: biographical notes concerning the officers in charge, 4 vols (Sydney: The Gardens, 1902-1903). Details
  • Maiden, J. H., 'Records of Australian botanists:- (a) general; (b) New South Wales', Journal and Proceedings of The Royal Society of New South Wales, 42 (1908), 60-132. Details

McCarthy, G.J.

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