> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 509](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33266186) of TL-2 Suppl. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/1920-1) LSID 1920-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4212532) QID Q4212532 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Cunningham, Richard|first entry]] for this author ### Author \* Cunningham, Richard (1793-1835), British gardener, Kew collector in Australia, colonial botanist in New South Wales 1833-1835 (brother of Allan Cunningham), born at Wimbledon, son of Allan Cunningham sr., gardener in the service of W.T. Aiton (director Kew), working on the *Hortus Kewensis* for six years, left for Australia (Sydney), August 1832, at the Botanical Garden of Sydney 1833, collecting in New Zealand 1834, on an expedition to the River Dailing 1835, until ca. 15 Apr 1835 when he was murdered: "he fell in with a party of blacks...". **Abbreviated name**: *R. Cunn.* \[standard form in IPNI: *R.Cunn.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection K|K]](incl. mss. flora of New Zealand). – Further material at [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection FI|FI]], [[Collection GL|GL]], [[Collection MEL|MEL]], [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection NSW|NSW]], [[Collection OXF|OXF]], [[Collection PH|PH]]. #### Bibliography and biography AG 2(2): 359; Backer p. 151; Barnhart 1: 404 (b. 12 Feb 1793, Wimbledon, Surrey, England, d. 25 Apr 1835, Australia); BB p. 80; Clokie p. 152; CSP 2: 105; Desmond p. 165 (q.v. for further refs); DNB 13: 317; Frank 3(Anh.): 20; Hegi 7: 557; Hortus 3: 1191; HR; IH 2: 147; Jackson p. 17; Lasègue p. 285, 328, 331, 498, 506; PR p. 73; TL-2/1: 573; Zander ed. 10, p. 648, ed. 11, p. 738. #### Biofile - Anon, Sydney Herald (newspaper) 3 Apr 1837; Austral. dict. biogr. 1: 268-269. 1966. - Bailey, F.M., Proc. R. Soc. Queensland 8(2): 24. 1890. - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. nos. 229.462, 269.122. 1980. - Carr, D.J. and S.G.M. Carr, eds., People and plants in Australia 165, 202, 243, 245. 1981 (portr.). - Cheeseman, T.F., Manual New Zealand Flora xx-xxi. 1906. - Coats, A.M., The plant hunters 220-221, 232. 1969. - Cockayne, L., Veg. New Zealand 3. 1921. - D'Arcy, W.G., Bull. Missouri Bot. Gard. 59(1): 24. 1971. - Douglas, D., *in* W.J. Hooker, Comp. bot. Mag. 2: 210-221. 1836 (portr.). - Fournier, E., *in* H.E. Baillon, Dict. bot. 2: 298. 1881. - Froggatt, W.W., J. Proc. Roy. Austral. Hist. Soc. 18: 101-133. 1932. - Gager, C.S., Brooklyn Bot. Gard. Rec. 27(3): 158. 1938 (director Bot. Gardens N.S.W. 1833-1835). - Haydock, D., Plant hunters in New Zealand part 10. Hebe News 7(3): 16-19. 1992. - Hedge, I.C. and J.M. Lamond, Index coll. Edinburgh Herb. 72. 1970. - Hooker, J.D., Fl. Tasmania cxvi, cxx, cxxiii-cxxiv. 1860. - Karg, A.L., Taxon 23(4): 614. 1974 (biogr. sketches with Hunt-Inst.). - Lee, I., Early explorers in Australia, London 1925, p. 168, 615-616. - Lyte, C., Sir Joseph Banks 176, 240. 1980. - Mabberley, D.J. Jupiter Botanicus 477 (index). 1985. - Maiden, J.H., The Sydney Bot. Gard., Biogr. note no. 3. Sydney 1903, p. 3-9; Kew Bull. 1906: 212-214; J. Proc. Roy. Soc. N.S.W. 42: 99-100. 1908; Sir Joseph Banks 153. 1909. - Milner, J.D., Cat. portr. Kew 32. 1906. - Miquel, F.A.W., Linnaea 18(1): 83. 1844. - Moyal, A., A bright and savage land 65. 1986. - Norton, J., Pres. Address, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 25: 172. 1900. - Schlechtendal, D.F.L. von, Linnaea 19(2): 156. 1843. - Wilson, E.H., Plant hunting 185, 220. 1927.