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Alexander Dick-Cunyngham

1848–1914

Banker. Son of Sir William Hanmer Dick-Cunyngham Bt and his wife Susan Alston Stewart, of Prestonfield House, Edinburgh. Married Elizabeth Penelope Cumberland in London in 1875. Chairman of the committee of the Sind Club, Karachi, 1877–8. London manager of the British Bank of South America, 1880/1–1914; director from April 1914.

Sources

Bankers’ Magazine 97 (1914): 649

Census returns of England and Wales 1881 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG11/104/118/39), 1891 (RG12/73/68/15), 1901 (RG13/86/94/3), 1911 (RG14/462)

Census returns of Scotland 1851 (The National Archives of Scotland: Liberton 4/14)

England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1966, 1973–95 (Ancestry.co.uk, accessed 30 May 2018)

Humphrey 1946, p. 46

London and Surrey, marriage bonds and allegations, 1597–1921 (Ancestry.co.uk, accessed 29 May 2018)

Scotland, select births and baptisms, 1564–1950 (Ancestry.co.uk, accessed 29 May 2018)

Bibliography

Humphrey, J. 1946. Story of the Sind Club, 1871–1946. Karachi: Union Press.

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