Allan Cunningham
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Scottish poet and author
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Allan Cunningham was a Scottish poet and author. Life He was born at Keir, near Dalswinton, Dumfries and Galloway, and first worked as a stonemason's apprentice. His father was a neighbour of Robert Burns at Ellisland, and Allan with his brother James visited James Hogg, the "Ettrick shepherd", who became a friend to both. Cunningham's other brothers were the naval surgeon Peter Miller Cunningham and the poet, Thomas Mounsey Cunningham .
