Peter Cunningham (British writer) explained

Peter Cunningham
Birth Name:Peter Nicolas Cunningham
Birth Date:1 April 1816
Birth Place:Pimlico, England
Death Place:St. Albans, England
Occupation:Writer
Partner:Zenobia Martin
Father:Allan Cunningham
Mother:Jean Walker
Nationality:British

Peter Nicolas Cunningham (1 April 1816 – 18 May 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).[1] 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 Edward Bulwer-Lytton along with Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Mark Lemon, John Tenniel, Douglas Jerrold and others.

Family

Cunningham married Zenobia Martin (1816–1901).[2] They had three children Edith, Norah, and Walter Cunningham (1850–1936).

References

Notes and References

  1. Cunningham, Allan . Cunningham, Allan § Peter Cunningham . 7 . 633.
  2. 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.