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  Allan Cunningham (botanist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Allan Cunningham (July 13, 1791 – June 27, 1839) was an English botanist and explorer.
Allan Cunningham is primarily known for his travels in New South Wales to collect plants.
Cunningham travelled on the right hand side of the Gap whereas the highway today runs on the lefthand side from the small township of Aratula.
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 ALLAN CUNNINGHAM - LoveToKnow Article on ALLAN CUNNINGHAM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Cunninghams prose is often spoiled by its misplaced and too ambitious rhetoric; his verse also is often over-ornate, and both are full of mannerisms, Some of his songs, however,, hold a high place among British lyrics.
Sum ALEXANDER CUNNINGHAM (1814-1893) also entered the Bengal Engineers; attaining the rank of major-general; he was director general of the Indian Archaeological Survey (1870-1885), and wrote an Ancient Geography of India (1871) and Coins of Medieval india (1894).
CUNNiNGHAM, WILLIAM (1805-1861), Scottish theologian and ecclesiastic, was born at Hamilton, in Lanarkshire, on the 2nd of October 1805, and educated at the university of Edinburgh.
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 Station Information - Allan Cunningham
Allan Cunningham (December 7, 1784 - October 30, 1842) was a Scottish poet and author.
His father was a neighbour of Robert Burns at Ellisland, and Allan with his brother James visited James Hogg, the "Ettrick shepherd", who became a friend to both.
In 1810 Cunningham went to London, where he worked as a journalist till 1814, when he became clerk of the works in the studio of the sculptor, Francis Chantrey, a post he kept until Chantrey's death in 1841.
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 Allan Cunningham   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Allan gladly assented to the task of gathering and preserving these old national treasures, and in due time presented to the zealous antiquary a choice collection of apparently old songs and ballads, which were inserted in the "Remains of Nithsdale and Galloway Song," published in 1810.
The duties of Cunningham, in the capacity of "friend and assistant," as Chantrey was wont to term him, were sufficiently multifarious; and of these, the superintendence of the artist’s extensive workshop was not the least.
Cunningham was, therefore, as able in suggesting graceful attitudes in figures, picturesque folds in draperies, and new proportions for pedestals, as Chantrey was in executing them, and in this way the former was a very Mentor and muse to the latter.
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 Robert Burns Country: The Burns Encyclopedia: Cunningham, Allan (1784 — 1842)
Cunningham went to London in 1810, and in 1814 became clerk of works to the sculptor Francis Chantry, retaining this position until Chantrey's death in 1841.
Cunningham's two best original songs are 'My Ain Countree', popular with the Scots, and 'A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea', which has become one of the best known among British sea songs.
Cunningham had 5 sons — all of whom wrote books or edited the works of others, though none were full time authors — and 1 daughter.
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 Allan Cunningham (botanist) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Allan Cunningham is primarily known for his (The act of going from one place to another) travels in (An Australian state in southeastern Australia) New South Wales to collect (A living organism lacking the power of locomotion) plants.
Cunningham was to return in 1828 from Brisbane to discover (Click link for more info and facts about Cunningham's Gap) Cunningham's Gap.
Cunningham travelled on the right hand side of the Gap whereas the (A major road for any form of motor transport) highway today runs on the lefthand side from the small township of Aratula.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/A/Al/Allan_Cunningham_(botanist).htm   (378 words)

  
 Guide to the Allan Cunningham Papers, 1815-1841
Cunningham showed him his work and the result was that Cromek persuaded Cunningham to move to London and try his hand at literature as a living.
Allan Cunningham was married to Jean Walker in Southwark on 1 July, 1811.
ALS Allan Cunningham to William Scrope 'Sorry you were unable to attend the Wilkie Statue Meeting'; 'it opened a little stormy but the fine, commanding spirit of Sir Robert Peel calmed down the waters of strife'.
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 Cunningham, Allan (1784-1842). Poet.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Allan Cunningham was born at Dalswinton, Dumfriesshire, on 7 December 1784.
Scott, and Cunningham was able to move to London in 1811, where he worked for the sculptor Sir Francis Legatt Chantrey (1781-1841) as his superintendent of works.
Cunningham edited a collection of Burns's poems and wrote a biography of the Scottish painter Sir David Wilkie (1785-1841).
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 Poet: Allan Cunningham - All poems of Allan Cunningham
Allan Cunningham, whose name was given to a species of pine tree...
Allan Cunningham (December 7, 1784 - October 30, 1842) was a Scottish...
Allan Cunningham (1791 - 1839) was an English explorer and botanical collector.
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 History of Freestone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Allan Cunningham was born in Wimbledon, Surrey, in 1791 and died in NSW in June 1839.
Cunningham is mostly remembered for his work as an explorer, however, before this he worked as a Botanist, collecting specimens for the Royal Gardens at Kew, under the direction of Sir Joseph Banks.
Allan Cunningham had already made three sea trips with King, surveying Australia’s coastline; had travelled with Oxley to both the Lachlan and Brisbane Rivers; had himself explored the land north of Bathurst, and had found Pandoras Pass to the North of Liverpool Plains.
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 Allan Cunningham   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Allan Cunningham (de diciembre el 7 de 1784 - de octubre el 30 de 1842) era poeta y autor escoceses.
En 1810 Cunningham fue a Londres, en donde él trabajó como periodista hasta 1814, cuando él hizo vendedor de los trabajos en el estudio del escultor, Francis Chantrey, un poste que él guardó hasta la muerte de Chantrey en 1841.
Su prosa es estropeada a menudo por su retórico colocado mal y demasiado ambicioso; su verso también es adornado, y ambos son completos de los manierismos, algunos de sus canciones, sin embargo, llevar a cabo un alto lugar entre las líricas británicas.
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 Explorers - Exploration of South Eastern Australia - Australian History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In 1822 Allan Cunningham opened a route between Bathurst and the Cudgegong River, where William Cox and his clan were settling.
Allan Cunningham left Bathurst on 15 April 1823 and travelled up the Cudgegong River; he reached the Goulburn River and crossed the Wemyss, but then, travelling north, was blocked by impassable mountains.
Cunningham on 30 April 1827 left the upper Hunter to begin the most important of all his explorations.
www.eurekatimes.net /1813-1827_Exploring_South_East_Australia.htm   (1867 words)

  
 Allan Cunningham -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
There was also a (A biologist specializing in the study of plants) botanist named Allan Cunningham, see (Click link for more info and facts about Allan Cunningham (botanist)) Allan Cunningham (botanist)
Allan Cunningham (December 7, 1784 - October 30, 1842) was a (The dialect of English used in Scotland) Scottish (A writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)) poet and author.
His father was a neighbour of (Celebrated Scottish poet (1759-1796)) Robert Burns at Ellisland, and Allan with his brother James visited (Scottish writer of rustic verse (1770-1835)) James Hogg, the "Ettrick shepherd", who became a friend to both.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/A/Al/Allan_Cunningham.htm   (311 words)

  
 Allan Cunningham (botánico)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Allan Cunningham (de julio el 13 de 1791 - de junio el 27 de 1839) era botánico y explorador ingleses.
Cunningham debía volver en 1828 de Brisbane para descubrir que Gap.
Cunningham de Cunningham viajó en el lado derecho de la separación mientras que la carretera funciona hoy en el lado izquierdo del township pequeño de Aratula.
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Allan Cunningham was a Kew botanist who became also famous as an explorer.
Cunningham's manuscripts are to be found in the Libraries of the Botanical Departments of the Natural History Museum at South Kensington and at Kew, and I beg to thank the authorities of both Libraries for their courtesy in permitting me to transcribe them.
Cunningham saw one variety growing in "glittering red sand" in Exmouth Gulf.] On Sunday, 20th, a number of natives assembled on a fl bluff or point of land, and it was evident that they had come to watch the ship go past, which to them must have been indeed a strange sight.
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 Our Indooroopilly - Oxley and Cunningham explore in 1824
Accompanying Oxley, were Allan Cunningham, the King's Botanist, and Robert Hoddle, the surveyor.
Cunningham's letter to the Reverend J.D. Lang, 20 October 1824: "Landed, and having found water in holes, proceeded to stake off the Town, the position of the Government House, the site of the stores..
Cunningham's Gap was therefore distinctly seen; this is the first recorded sighting of the gap, and Cunningham on this occasion seems to have taken less interest in it than Oxley did.
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 GlenroyH2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Towards evening clouds began to gather in the west, and about eight o’clock there was a thunderstorm and a deluge of rain.
Allan Cunningham, botanist and explorer, spent many happy hours in the vicinity of Cox’s River.  Judge Barron Field thought Cox’s River “worth going to spend a few days at, of itself”.
On his return journey Cunningham arrived about noon on December 30 at the “old resting place at Cox’s River”.  Having encamped here he rode eagerly off to the “Bald Ridge”.
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 Allan Cunningham: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Allan Cunningham   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Allan Cunningham: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Allan Cunningham
He was born at Keir, Dumfriesshire[?], and first worked as a stone mason's apprentice.
Cunningham contributed some songs to Roche's Literary Recreations in 1807, and in 1809 he collected old ballads for Robert Hartley Cromek[?]'s Remains of Nithsdale and Galloway Song; he sent in, however, poems of his own, which the editor inserted, even though he may have suspected their real authorship.
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 Imogen Cunningham biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Imogen Cunningham (April_12, 1883 - June_24, 1976) was one of the best-known American female photographers.
She began taking pictures in 1901 after studying photographic chemistry at the University of Washington in Seattle..
Cunningham was one of the original members of the Group f/64.
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 Allan Cunningham Hotel Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia - Allan Cunningham Hotel Group Booking Reservation ...
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 Settlement of Ipswich
In the party were John Oxley, Allan Cunningham, Lieutenant Butler of the 40th Regiment and the boats' crews.
Allan Cunningham, explorer and Her Majesty's Botanical Collector, discovered the Darling Downs in 1827 and also a gap in the mountain range.
Cunningham wrote, "the importance of building a wharf on the right hand bank of this bas to which produce of the interior might be conveyed, will at a future day be seen."
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 A Good Read
Reviews in this issue cover Allan Cunningham: Australian Collecting Localities by Suzanne Curry, Bruce Maslin and John Maslin, Nature’s Investigator: The Diary of Robert Brown in Australia, 1801-1805 by T.G.Vallance, D.T.Moore and E.W.Groves and Mangroves to Mountains by the Logan River Branch of SGAP (Queensland).
Allan Cunningham was a significant plant collector and explorer in Australia between 1816 and 1839.
Details of where Cunningham walked at each landing were obtained from his unpublished journal, checked where necessary against King's journals and charts.
farrer.riv.csu.edu.au /ASGAP/APOL27/sep02-10.html   (2068 words)

  
 Cunningham, Allan --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Allan Cunningham, detail of a portrait by Henry Room; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
U.S. physicist Allan Cormack was born in Johannesburg, South Africa.
The Scottish poet Allan Ramsay maintained national poetic traditions by writing Scots poetry and by preserving the work of earlier Scottish poets at a time when most Scottish writers had been anglicized.
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 Toowoomba City Council - the garden city of the Darling Downs, Queensland
Allan Cunningham was born in Wimbledon, Surrey on 13 July, 1791, educated at a private school in Putney.
Aiton recommended Cunningham to Sir Joseph Banks and he obtained an appointment as a botanical collector.
His notes on the botanical results of the survey were thought important enough to be published in a German translation.
www.toowoomba.qld.gov.au /index.php?option=content&task=view&id=515   (157 words)

  
 Our Indooroopilly - Oxley and Cunningham explore in 1824
This extract covers the ascent of Mt. Crosby, march west towards Mt. Walker, its ascent and remarks on the extensive views from the summit and the effect of the drought.
Cunningham and myself set forward to the west ward, intending to reach the conical hill which bore N. 307° from Belle Vue, and from which we hoped to have an extensive Western prospect.
Cunningham estimated this distance as 2 miles (Journal, 23 September 1824).
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 Cunningham, Allan - botanical collector   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Cunningham joined several expeditions, including that of Oxley along the Lachlan and Macquarie Rivers (1817) and Philip Parker King's coastal surveys (Mermaid and Bathurst, 1817­1822).
In 1822 Cunningham collected in New South Wales at Illawarra, Blue Mountains, Pandora Pass and Liverpool Plains.
In 1824 he visited the source of the Murrumbidgee and Brisbane Rivers, and in 1825 the Nepean and Hunter Rivers, Pandora Pass, Liverpool Plains, Wellington Valley, Coxs River and other places in New South Wales.
www.anbg.gov.au /biography/cunningham-allan.html   (319 words)

  
 Cunningham   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
A botanist, sent by Joseph Banks to New South Wales in 1816 to collect plants, Cunningham joined John Oxley's expedition to the Lachlan and Macquarie rivers in 1817.
Allan Cunningham, whose name was given to a species of pine tree (Araucaria Cunninghamii), in 1819 assisted Philip Parker King in his survey of the Queensland coastline.
Leaving Segenhoe in the Hunter River valley (N.S.W.) on 30 April 1827, he discovered on 6 June a vast area of excellent land which he named the Darling Downs in honour of the Governor.
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