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Cunningham, Robert Alexander, B.Sc., Lecturer, Chemistry Department, 409 Chemistry and Physics Building.
Mr. Cunningham joined the staff of the M.A.C. in the fall of 1912 as assistant to Dr. Morgan in the Chemistry Department. A native of Edinburgh, Scotland, where he received his early education, Cunningham entered the University of Edinburgh in 1906, where he “studied agriculture in all its phases, and at the close of a very distinguished course, in which he gained six medals in agriculture (general, advanced and colonial), general and agricultural chemistry, and zoology, he graduated with a B.Sc. in March, 1910.”
The M.A.C. Gazette, v. VI, no. 1 (Oct. 1912), p. 53-54.
After a year in post-graduate studies in agricultural chemistry, he came to Canada in September 1911 and joined the staff of Toronto University as Assistant in the Applied Chemistry Department. After a year there, he came west and joined the staff of M.A.C. From the perspective of the Gazette, his “wide experience in practical agriculture…combined with his “high qualifications” made him an excellent choice for the work of the Chemistry Department.
Lieut. R. A. Cunningham enlisted with the 196th University Bn. in February 1916, transferred to the 46th Bn, and served in France, where he was killed 27 September 1918, just weeks before the end of the war.