11/01/1770 AD died
Cruden died suddenly while praying in his lodgings in Camden Passage, Islington, on 1 November 1770.
He was buried in the ground of a Protestant dissenting congregation in Dead Man's Place, Southwark. He bequeathed a portion of his savings for a bursary at Aberdeen, which preserves his name on the list of benefactors of the university.
