| Allan
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| Nationality - Scottish |
Profession - Author |
| Date of birth - 07 Dec 1784
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Date of death - 1842 |
| Place of birth
- Keir : near Dalswinton : Dumfriesshire |
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Allan Cunningham was born at Keir, near Dalswinton, Dumfriesshire on December 7 1784.
Allan's father was a neighbour of Robert Burns at Ellisland, and as a boy Allan regularly visited James Hogg, the "Ettrick shepherd", who became a good friend and ispiration to him.
Two of Allan's brothers were, naval surgeon Peter Miller Cunningham (1789–1864), and the poet Thomas Mounsey Cunningham (1776–1834).
Allan was apprenticed to a stonemason, but spent most of his free time reading and writing imitations of old Scottish ballads.
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Allan contributed some songs to Roche's Literary Recreations in 1807, and in 1809 he collected old ballads for Robert Hartley Cromek's Remains of Nithsdale and Galloway Song; he sent in, however, poems of his own, which the editor inserted, even though he may have suspected their real authorship - it was this that gained him the friendship of Walter Scott and James Hogg.
In 1810 Allan worked as a parliamentary reporter and journalist in London till 1814, when he became clerk of the works in the studio of the sculptor, Francis Chantrey, a post he kept until Chantrey's death in 1841.
Allan Cunningham died at Lower Belgrave Place, Pimlico, on October 29, 1842. |
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