Cuming, Alexander, Sir, 1691-1755
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Cuming, Alexander, Sir, bart., 1690?-1755
Cumming, Alexander, Sir, 1691-1755
Cuming, Alexander, Sir, 1690?-1755
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Cuming, Alexander, Sir, 1690?-1755
Cuming, Alexander, Sir, bart., 1690?-1755
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found: His Sir Andrew Kennedy, Bar., appel., the Queen's Majesty and Sir Alexander Cuming, Bar., resp. [MI] 1711.
found: CSt/G-K files(hdg.: Cumming, Alexander, Sir, 1670?-1755; usage: Sir Alexr. Cuming)
found: LC data base, 2-24-88(hdg.: Cuming, Alexander, Sir, bart., 1690?-1775)
found: DNB(Cuming or Cumming, Alexander, 1690?-1775)
found: BM(b. about 1692)
found: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography WWW site, April 21, 2020(Cuming, Sir Alexander, second baronet; born Dec. 18, 1691, Edinburgh, according to his manuscript autobiography; died at the Charterhouse and was buried Aug. 28, 1775. East Barnet church; traveled to America in 1729 and journeyed to the Cherokee Indian country, where he was declared the Cherokee "lawgiver, commander, leader, and chief;" returned to England with seven Cherokee, but his role in working with them was given to Robert Johnson, governor of South Carolina, instead; he subsequently dabbled in alchemy in an attempt to deal with his rising debts, which landed him in debtor's prison in 1737, where he stayed until being released in 1765, when he became a pensioner at the Charterhouse; member of the Royal Society, 1720-1757)
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1988-02-26: new
2020-04-22: revised
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