James Cunningham ( c 1667 - 1709 )

Birth: Scotland (c 1667) Death: 1709 Profession: Surgeon Research Field: Botany Education: Leyden (admitted 1686) Career: Surgeon to the HEIC at Emoui, China (1698); went to Chusan (1700-1702); visited Ascension Island and Pulo Condore (1703), where he escaped a massacre; imprisoned in Cochin China (1705-1707); went to Batavia and then Banjar-Massin, from whence he was expelled and embarked for England, but appears to have died on the voyage home from Calcutta; he sent many plants to Sir Hans Soane (FRS 1685), John Ray (FRS 1667) and James Petiver (FRS 1695) Membership: Fellow Election Date: 20/12/1699.