Ebenezer Cunningham (7 May 1881 – 12 February 1977) was a British mathematician who is remembered for his research and exposition at the dawn of special relativity.
[1] He was educated at Owen's School, Islington, before going up to St John's College, Cambridge, in 1899 and graduating as Senior Wrangler in 1902, winning the Smith's Prize in 1904.
When drafted for the war in 1915 he did alternative service growing food and in an office at the YMCA.
McCrea writes that Cunningham had doubts whether general relativity produced "physical results adequate return for mathematical elaboration."
He was an ardent pacifist, strongly religious, a member of Emmanuel United Reformed Church, Cambridge and chairman of the Congregational Union of England and Wales for 1953–54 (and, for this role, he was a guest at the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II and participant of her Coronation procession[4]).