author
Francis Cunningham
1785–1863
A Church of England clergyman and religious writer, he spent much of his working life in Suffolk and published sermons, theological studies, and spirited defenses of the Bible Society. His surviving works offer a vivid glimpse of early 19th-century Anglican debate.
6 Audiobooks
A Dissertation on the Books of Origen against Celsus
by Francis Cunningham
An account of the Death of Philip Jolin who was executed for the murder of his father, in the Island of Jersey, October 3, 1829
by Francis Cunningham
The Pilot's Daughter: an account of Elizabeth Cullingham
by Francis Cunningham
About the author
Born in 1785, Francis Cunningham studied at Cambridge and went on to become a Church of England clergyman. Archival and bibliographic records identify him with Pakefield and Lowestoft in Suffolk, where he served for many years and was later noted as vicar of Lowestoft and an honorary canon of Norwich.
He wrote mainly on religious subjects. Works associated with him include A Dissertation on the Books of Origen against Celsus, along with sermons, letters, and pamphlets connected to controversies around the British and Foreign Bible Society. That mix of scholarship and public argument suggests a writer deeply involved in the religious questions of his time.
Cunningham died in 1863. Reliable sources confirm his dates and clerical career, but I did not find a clearly verified portrait of him on the pages I checked, so no author image is included here.