Alexander Cuming ( c 1690 - 1775 )

Birth: Edinburgh (18 December 1691) Death: Charterhouse hospital, London (20 August 1775) Burial: The church of East Barnet, Hertfordshire Education: Middle Temple (admitted 1716) Career: Captain in the Earl of Mar's Regiment of Foot (1703-1713); called to the Scottish Bar (1714); in the secret service of the Crown (1718-1721); rumoured to have been a Captain in the Russian Army; went to America to visit the Cherokee Mountains because of a dream of his wife's (1729); made a Chief of the Cherokee Nation (1730); returned to England with five Cherokee chiefs, whom he presented to George II (1730); signed a peace treaty with the Cherokees on behalf of the British nation; Captain of an Independent Company in Jamaica (1734); accused of defrauding settlers while in South Carolina, he lost all his money and was imprisoned for debt in the Fleet Prison (1737-1765); his plans for settling 300,000 Jewish families in the Cherokee Mountains, for paying off the National Debt and for relieving the American colonies of taxation came to nothing; a Poor Brother of the Charterhouse (1766-death) Membership: Fellow Election Date: 30/06/1720.