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Sir Albert Cunningham (died 5 September 1691) was an Ulster Scots army officer who fought in the

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. He was one of the twenty-seven children of

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, who emigrated to Ireland from Scotland, and Marian Murray, daughter of John Murray of

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. He married Margaret Leslie, daughter of Henry Leslie,

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, and Jane Swinton, and had one son,

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. Cunningham became Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance in Ireland in 1660. He stood down from that role in 1687 and went on to raise Cunningham's Dragoons in 1689. He fought on the side of

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at the

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in July 1690 and the Siege of Limerick in August 1691. He was murdered by an Irish Catholic soldier while being held as a

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near

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on 5 September 1691. A portrait of Cunningham is at

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Cunningham, Albert 1691 deaths Williamite military personnel of the Williamite War in Ireland 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons officers Military personnel from County Sligo