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Allan Cunningham

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Names

First Name:

Allan

Last Name(s):

Cunningham

Pseudonym(s):

The Nithsdale Mason

Hidllan

Gender:

male

Bio Dates

Birth Year:

1784

Death Year:

1842

Cause of Death:

paralysis

stroke

Death Description:

"Cunningham had already suffered a paralytic attack in 1839 (presumably some kind of stroke), and he died at his home, 27 Lower Belgrave Place, on 29 October 1842, the day after a second attack." (ODNB)

Locations

Nationality:

Scottish

Birthplace:

Keir, Dumfriesshire

Transatlantic:

Class and Labor

Industry:

Occupation:

Disability and Illness:

paralysis

stroke

Disability and Illness Description:

References and Sources

References and Sources:

Biblio Texts:

380-2

II, 61-72

302-3

X, xvii

192-203, 217

Items 171-4

Items 109, 373, 751

Items 1358-9

269 (numerous manuscripts and letters)

Item 26

Other Digital References:

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Other Analog References:

The Collected Letters of James Hogg, Volume 1, 1800-1819, ed Gillian Hughes (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2004), 384, 386

James Hogg, The Queen’s Wake, ed. Douglas S. Mack (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005)

Allan Cunningham's Publications

Title	Publication Date	Publisher	Edition	Editor	Pages	Dialect	Digitized or Digital Editions	Additional Notes
The Works and Life of Burns		James Cochrane, John Macrone		Allan Cunningham			HathiTrust
Remains of Nithsdale and Galloway song: with historical and traditional notices relative to the manners and customs of the peasantry	1810	Thomas Cadell		R. H. Cromek	414		Archive.org	"The collection Remains of Nithsdale and Galloway Song appeared the following December, of which Cunningham says that ‘every article but two little scraps was contributed by me’ (ibid., 79), a fact not discernible from Cromek's acknowledgement in the introduction of Cunningham's services in drawing ‘many pieces from obscurity’. The book, which contains interesting accounts in prose of the Scottish border peasantry, obviously by Cunningham, was favourably received, and the mystification as to the origin of the ballads was always transparent to some, especially Scott and Hogg. An article on this volume by Professor John Wilson in Blackwood's Magazine (December 1819) first drew public attention to Cunningham's poetical merits." (ODNB)
Songs, Chiefly in the Rural Language of Scotland	1813					Scots	HathiTrust
Sir Marmaduke Maxwell, a Dramatic Poem; The Mermaid of Galloway; The Legend of Richard Faulder; and Twenty Scottish Songs	1822	Taylor & Hessey	2				HathiTrust
The Songs of Scotland, Ancient and Modern; with an Introduction and Notes, Historical and Critical, and Characters of the Lyric Poets	1825	John Taylor					Archive.org
Paul Jones; a Romance	1826	Longman, Rees, Orme, & Brown (Green, Hurst), Oliver & Boyd					Google Books (Volume 1), Google Books (Volume 2), Google Books (Volume 3)
Sir Michael Scott, a Romance	1828	Henry Colburn					HathiTrust (Volume 1), HathiTrust (Volume 2), HathiTrust (Volume 3)
Lives of the most Eminent British Painters, Sculptors, and Architects	1829 to 1833	John Murray		Allan Cunningham			HathiTrust
The Maid of Elvar, A Poem. In Twelve Parts	1832	Edward Moxon					Archive.org
Lord Roldan; a Romance	1836	John Macrone					HathiTrust (Volume 1), HathiTrust (Volume 2), HathiTrust (Volume 3)

Personal Map

Relationships

Source	Relationship Type	Target	Description	View
Allan Cunningham	friends with	John Clare		View
Allan Cunningham	friends with	James Hogg	Cunningham and Hogg were friends, and Hogg's ‘Sixteenth Bard’ in his portmanteau poem The Queen’s Wake (1812) is said to be based on Cunningham.	View
Allan Cunningham	friends with	John Clare		View
Allan Cunningham	influenced	Sir Walter Scott	Cunningham was esteemed by Sir Walter Scott	View
Allan Cunningham	is sibling of	Thomas Mounsey Cunningham		View