' Yes,' he replied, ' I should like to be an admiral', though he had no more than a vague interest in ships and the sea ( Cunningham, 13). After early schooling in Dublin he was at Edinburgh Academy, aged ten, when his father asked him if he would like to join the navy. Cunningham's ancestry was wholly Scottish and he always thought of himself as a Scot, though he spent but little time there, even after his father had taken up the chair of anatomy in Edinburgh. A brother was General Sir Alan Gordon Cunningham (1887–1983). 1926), daughter of the Revd Andrew Browne of Beith, Ayrshire. © Karsh / Camera Press, London collection National Portrait Gallery, LondonĬunningham, Andrew Browne, Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope ( 1883–1963), naval officer, was born at 42 Grosvenor Square, Rathmines, Dublin, on 7 January 1883, the third of the five children of Daniel John Cunningham (1850–1909), then a professor of anatomy at Trinity College, Dublin, and his wife, Elizabeth Cumming ( d.
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