Albert Cunningham

Colonel Sir Albert Cunningham (died 5 September 1691) was an Anglo-Irish army officer who fought in the Williamite War in Ireland.

He was one of the twenty-seven children of Alexander Cunningham, Dean of Raphoe, who emigrated to Ireland from Scotland, and Marian Murray, daughter of John Murray of Broughton, Edinburgh.

[1] He married Margaret Leslie, daughter of Henry Leslie, Bishop of Meath, and Jane Swinton, and had one son, Henry.

[4] He fought on the side of Prince William of Orange at the Battle of the Boyne in July 1690 and the Siege of Limerick in August 1691.

[5] He was murdered by an Irish Catholic soldier while being held as a prisoner of war[6] near Collooney in County Sligo on 5 September 1691.