Peter Cunningham (writer, born 1816)
Peter Cunningham FSA (1816–1869) was a British writer born in London, son of the Scottish author Allan Cunningham and his wife Jean (née Walker, 1791–1866). Cunningham published several topographical and biographical studies, of which the most important are his Handbook of London (1849) and The Life of Drummond of Hawthornden (1833). He edited Extracts from the Accounts of the Revels at Court in the Reigns of Elizabeth and James I (1842) and Horace Walpole's Letters (1857).
In 1851 he appeared in an amateur production of a play Not So Bad As We Seem by Lord Lytton along with Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Mark Lemon, John Tenniel, Douglas Jerrold and others.
Family
Cunningham married Zenobia Martin (1816–1901).[1] They had three children Edith, Norah, and Walter Cunningham (1850–1936).
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "article name needed". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
Notes
- ↑ Zenobia Martin was the daughter of the artist John Martin. Zenobia's brother was Jonathan Martin who set fire to York Minster in 1829, and she was sister of Jessie Martin (1825-1859) who married the Egyptologist Joseph Bonomi
External links
- Works by Peter Cunningham at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Peter Cunningham at Internet Archive
- Works by Peter Cunningham at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
