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  Allan Cunningham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Allan Cunningham (December 7, 1784 - October 30, 1842) was a Scottish poet and author.
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.
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 (botanist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Allan Cunningham is primarily known for his travels in New South Wales to collect plants.
Cunningham was to return in 1828 from Brisbane to discover Cunningham's Gap.
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 (botanist)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Allan Cunningham (July 13, 1791 - June 27, 1839) was an English botanist and explorer.
Cunningham primarily traveled in New South Wales to collect plants.
Among other explorations, he joined John Oxley's 1817 expedition to the Lachlan and Macquarie rivers and traveled as the ship's botanist aboard the HMS Mermaid from 1817 to 1820.
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 Allan Cunningham (botanist) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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 (additional 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   (405 words)

  
 Rec Fresh : Article 'Allan Cunningham'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
There was also a botanist named Allan Cunningham, see Allan Cunningham (botanist) Allan Cunningham (December 7, 1784 - October 30, 1842) was a Scottish poet and author.
Allan Cunningham - A British botanist and explorer.
Allan Cunningham - A Scottish poet and author.
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 Allan Cunningham -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
There was also a (A biologist specializing in the study of plants) botanist named Allan Cunningham, see (additional 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.
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 PACSOA - Allan Cunningham 1791-1839
Allan Cunningham was perhaps the greatest of all the collectors of Australian plants.
Cunningham settled at Parramatta in December 1816, collecting in the area, but a few months later at Governor Macquaries suggestion joined Oxleys expedition to explore west of the Blue Mountains.
A number of plants were named after the Cunningham brothers by their fellow botanists, including Araucaria cunninghamii, Casuarina cunninghamiana, Castanospermum cunninghamii and one of the two palms native to the Sydney area, Archontophoenix cunninghamiana.
www.pacsoa.org.au /places/People/cunningham.html   (803 words)

  
 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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 Re-discovering Allan Cunningham, Botanist died Sydney Australia 1839 by di2 - WriteWords.org.uk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The plaque states that the obelisk was "Erected to the memory of Allan Cunningham Botanist MDCCCXLIV".
She peers at the plaque for a while and the words come into focus, "The remains of Allan Cunningham were interred in the Devonshire Street Cemetery in July 1839 from which they were reverently removed on the 25th May 1901 and placed within this obelisk".
Following the excitement of re-discovering Allan Cunningham, a smile of new knowledge twinkled in the artist's eyes as she settled down, at last, to create a beautiful work on paper, or at least try, for she was in no way a Rembrandt.
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 Cunningham   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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.
He was botanist on the "Mermaid" 1817-20 and made inland explorations of New South Wales.
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.
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 Encyclopedia: Allan Cunningham (botanist)
Cunninghams Gap is a pass over the Great Dividing Range between the Darling Downs and Brisbane areas.
National Highway 15 National Route 42 The Cunningham Highway is a state highway in Queensland.
This is a list of botanists by their author abbreviation.
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 Cunningham, Allan - botanical collector   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Selected by Banks from among Kew staff to be an overseas collector ('King's Botanist to the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew').
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.
www.anbg.gov.au /biography/cunningham-allan.html   (319 words)

  
 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)

  
 QAG - Cunningham’s Gap
Cunningham’s Gap was named after the botanist Allan Cunningham who reached it in 1828.
Cunningham’s Gap is the primary pathway through the Range to the southern Darling Downs; now semi-trailers struggle up the steep incline instead of riders on horseback.
The squatters and tourists used Cunningham’s Gap to travel between Brisbane and the Downs; it was only a rough bridle path, unsuitable for stock or vehicles.
www.visualarts.qld.gov.au /content/martens_standard0.asp?name=Martens_Works_Cunn_Gap   (199 words)

  
 Division of Cunningham   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Division of Cunningham is an Australian Electoral Division in New South Wales.
The division was created in 1949 and is named for Allan Cunningham, a 19th century explorer of New South Wales.
It is located on the south coast of New South Wales, and takes in parts of the city of Wollongong, including Corrimal, Figtree and Unanderra.
www.tocatch.info /en/Division_of_Cunningham.htm   (121 words)

  
 History
First discovered by Allan Cunningham, a botanist, during his 1827 expedition.
Cunningham named the river after Captain Peter MacIntyre of Blairmor and Pitmacree on the Hunter River.
MacIntyre accosted Cunningham greatly in his expeditions to discover "what great lands lay beyond the horizon".
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 School - History - John Oxley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
During this visit, on 30 September 1824, he also returned to the Pine River to collect samples of logs of the Hoop Pines which he had sighted on his first trip to the area.
Allan Cunningham, the botanist and explorer, accompanied the party.
As it was Cunningham who identified the Hoop Pine as a species of Araucaria, it was subsequently named Araucaria cunninghamii in recognition of his work.
pineriversshs.eq.edu.au /pages/school/history/John_Oxley.htm   (477 words)

  
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This species was named by Allan Cunningham, botanist-explorer, to honour his friend and fellow explorer Dr Thomas Braidwood Wilson (1792 - 1843).
The latter was born in Braidwood, Lanarkshire, in Scotland.
Wilson was a keen botanist and brought seeds and plants, including Grevillea wilsonii, to the botanist Allan Cunningham.
www.anbg.gov.au /friends/archives/articles/articlesjuly03.html   (2459 words)

  
 allan cunningham   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
He was married to Jean Walker, who had been servant in a house where he lived, and they had five sons and one daughter.
This entry is updated from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
There was also a botanist named Allan Cunningham, see Allan Cunningham (botanist)
www.yourencyclopedia.net /Allan_Cunningham   (322 words)

  
 Linne Island at the Whitsundays   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Linné Island was named in July 1820 by Lieutenant P. King, RN, in HMS Mermaid after the Swedish naturalist Carl von Linné (1707Ð 1778).
Probably out of deference to the botanist Allan Cunningham who travelled with King in Mermaid, King named a number of features after well-known figures of the times in botany and the natural sciences (see Dryander, Shaw, Sir James Smith).
As was common in the early surveys King was more interested in naming prominent reference points than in naming individual islands and he named Linné Peak but not the island.
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 ALLAN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Search the ALLAN Family Message Boards at Ancestry.com (if available).
Search the ALLAN Family Resource Center at RootsWeb.com (if available).
Find graves of people named ALLAN at Find-a-Grave.com (or add one that you know).
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 "WARWICK"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Situated only a couple of hours drive from Brisbane, the Gold and Sunshine Coasts, Warwick is one of the oldest cities in Queensland retaining many magnificent sandstone buildings with examples of timber 'Queenslander' homes found in most of the wide streets.
Discovered in 1827 by the English botanist Allan Cunningham areas around Warwick saw its first settlers with the arrival of the Leslie Brothers in 1840.
Warwick, centre of the Darling Downs, is at the junction of the Cunningham (Newell) Highway from Victoria and South Australia and the New England from Sydney and New South Wales.
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 Allan Cunningham: Explorer - EnchantedLearning.com
Cunningham's explorations included Brazil (from 1814 to 1816), eastern Australia (1816 - 1839), and New Zealand (1826).
Cunningham was born in Wimbledon, England, in July 13, 1791.
In 1816, he sailed to New South Wales, Australia, to continue the work of the botanist Robert Brown (who had been on the Matthew Flinders expedition).
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 allan cunningham - OneLook Dictionary Search   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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Cunningham, Allan : Columbia Encyclopedia, Six Edition [home, info]
CUNNINGHAM, ALLAN : 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
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 List of biologists - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Prideaux John Selby (1788-1867), English botanist and ornithologist
Agustin Stahl (1842-1917), Puerto Rican zoologist and botanist.
James D. Watson, (born 1928), Nobel Prize-winning biologist, co-discoverer of the structure of the DNA molecule
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 Sir John Smith group Island at the Whitsundays   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Sir James Smith Group was named in July 1820 by Lieutenant P. King, RN, during his second voyage through the area in HMS Mermaid.
The naming is undoubtedly after Sir James Edward Smith (1759-1828) prominent botanist and president of the Linnéan Society in London in those years.
In deference to Allan Cunningham, the botanist who travelled with King in Mermaid in 1819 - 20 and in Bathurst in 1821, King named a number of features after prominent botanists and naturalists of the time (see Linné, Dryander, Shaw).
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 Cunningham, Allan - Bright Sparcs Published Sources
Perry, T. M., 'Cunningham, Allan (1791-1839), botanist and explorer', in Douglas Pike (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol.
Andrews, Alan E. J., 'Allan Cunningham and the Shy Ladies at Caley's Repulse', Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, vol.
Hamilton, R.C., 'Allan Cunningham - With Special Reference to His Work in What is Now Queensland', Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, vol.
www.asap.unimelb.edu.au /bsparcs/bib/P000337p.htm   (266 words)

  
 The History of Australian Exploration appendix
1817-20--Captain Phillip P. King, with Allan Cunningham, botanist, in the cutter Mermaid; survey of the Australian coasts.
1828--Allan Cunningham, accompanied by Charles Frazer, botanist connected the Moreton Bay settlement, with the Darling Downs by way of Cunningham's Gap.
1833--Richard Cunningham, botanist, brother to Allan Cunningham, murdered by the fls while with Sir Thomas Mitchell's expedition.
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 Townsville Region: A Social Atlas - Townsville City Council   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Local plants and animals as well as the drawing of the local topography certainly featured in the work of Joseph Banks and his two artists, Buchan and Parkinson, as the Endeavour sailed our northern coastline.
During Parker King’s survey of the Australian coast in 1819, Allan Cunningham, a botanist, is recorded as walking the shore of Cleveland Bay and naming many plants and trees of the area.
The first recorded account of European contact with Aboriginal people in the Cleveland Bay area was in June 1841, when a survey cruise of the HMS Beagle landed a party on the southern corner of today’s Shelly Beach.
www.townsville.qld.gov.au /about/atlas/history_1.asp   (925 words)

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