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Bergmästare (inspector of mines), and Bergråd (councillor
of mines), and lies buried in the family vault of Elfkarleby.
Adam Leyel, son of Jacob, was director of the
ironworks at Hammarby, and spent large sums in improving
the productiveness of the silver-mines at Hellefors.
As a scientific genius we may add to the foregoing the
name of Thomas Cunningham. He was the son of another
Thomas, a native of Creall in Scotland, who lived in
Stockholm as a grocer in 1659, and was drowned in 1697.
Beginning as a staff-sergeant with the artillery (1713), he
became lieutenant in 1718, captain in 1734, and colonel
in 1757. Two years later he died at Carlskrona, where he
lies buried in the German church. Of him it is said1
“ that not only was he a brave soldier, but quite a slave
to his profession. He improved the powder-mill, laid the
foundation of a collection of models and drawings, and
procured for the Swedish guns much appreciation and
fame in foreign countries.”
In the province of Statesmanship and the like we have
already mentioned at length Alexander Erskine and his
diplomatic achievements during the Thirty Years’ War.2
By his side, though not reaching up to him in influence
or character, we may place Walter Greig or Greigge, the
ancestor of the Swedish noble family of Greniggenschildt.
His father was the well-known merchant at Wolgast in
Pomerania, John Greig, who also owned the estate of
Pritzwald. He was born in 1622, on the 1st of May, and
became a Licentiate Juris utriusque in 1654, after various
journeys to foreign countries. In the same year Johann
Oxenstierna, the Chancellor of the University of Greifswald,
nominated him Professor Juris extraordinarius, with leave
to continue his practice as an advocate. Five years later
1 See Anrep, l.c.
2 See Scots in Germany. The name is often written Erskein.
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