Later Life
In 1831 Cunningham returned to England, but went back to Australia in 1837 as government botanist, resigning in the following year on finding that he was required to grow vegetables for government officials. He died in Sydney on 27 June 1839, of consumption and his remains were reinterred in an obelisk within the Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney in 1901.
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