Dictionary of Indian Biography/Cuningham, Sir William John

by Charles Edward Buckland

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CUNINGHAM, SIR WILLIAM JOHN (1848–)

I.C.S. : born Nov. 20, 1848 : son of Alexander Cuningham : educated at Edinburgh Academy and privately : went out to Bombay, 1870 : served as Assistant to the Chief Commissioner of Mysore : Under Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign Department, 1885 : Secretary in the Foreign Department, 1894–1901 : C.S.I. , 1894 : K.C.S.I., 1897.