Excerpt from William Cunningham, 1849-1919: From the Proceedings of the British Academy, Vol. IX Though a vicar, he had retained his College Lectureship, and, in addition, delivered lectures on religious subjects, i. E. The Compara tive Study of Religion' and 'christian and Unchristian Politics'. In 1891 he was elected Tooke Professor of Economics and Statistics at King's College, London, and was considering moving to London when his election to a Fellowship at Trinity resulted in his continuing to reside at Cambridge. He held his Professorship at London till 1897. In addition to these various duties, Cunningham took an active part in congresses, meetings, and public affairs. He was one of those who started the Trinity College Mission at St. George's, Camberwell. He acted as Secretary of the Industrial Remuneration Conference, where he met Arthur Balfour, John Burns, Sir Charles Dilke, and Frederick Harrison. As far back as 1883 he had been a secretary of the Economic Science Section of the British Association, and he served in this capacity up to the time he was President of the Section at Cardiff in 1891. He was again President of the Section in 1905. He attended most iof the meetings, and welcomed the opportunity of meeting both his contemporaries and the younger men. He was one of the original members of the British Academy, a contributor to the Transactions, and Chairman of the Section of the Politisal and Economic Sciences at the time of his death. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.