Cunninghame Graham

British  

/ ˈkʌnɪŋəm ˈɡreɪəm /

noun

1. R ( obert ) B ( ontine ). 1852–1936, Scottish traveller, writer, and politician, noted for his essays and short stories: first president (1928) of the Scottish Nationalist Party

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Example Sentences

The Scottish Labour Party was founded in 1888 by two extraordinary but very different men, the miner and trade unionist Keir Hardie, and the aristocratic adventurer RB Cunninghame Graham.

From BBC

At the end of the train, I remember, there was to have been a horse-van containing Mr. Maurice Hewlett’s charger—Mr. Hewlett himself, I believe, was left behind by accident at the  Gare de Lyons—Mr. Cunninghame Graham’s Arab steed, and a large, quiet sheep, the inseparable pet of Mr. Arthur Christopher Benson….

From Project Gutenberg

Among first-rate British writers of the immediate past, the reputation of Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham has dimmed more rapidly than that of any of his long-lived literary generation.

From Time Magazine Archive

But Cunninghame Graham was no mere Victorian period piece surviving to a cynical and indifferent age.

From Time Magazine Archive

Cunninghame Graham taught fencing in Mexico City, returned to the cattle business in South America, learned when his father died in 1884 that debts on the estate amounted to more than �100,000.

From Time Magazine Archive