Cunninghame Graham
Britishnoun
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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 • Mar. 25, 2023
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
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 is the hero of his own book; but I have not made him the hero of my play, because so incredible a personage must have destroyed its likelihood—such as it is.
From Captain Brassbound's Conversion by Shaw, Bernard
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