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Cunninghame Graham

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Cunninghame Graham [ˈkʌnɪŋəm ˈgreɪəm]
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(Biographies / Cunninghame Graham, R(obert) B(ontine) (1852-1936) M, Scottish, TRAVEL AND EXPLORATION: traveller, WRITING: writer, POLITICS: politician) 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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In 1888 the Socialist MP Robert Cunninghame Graham was suspended after the first recorded use of the word "damn" in the Commons Chamber.
But, while Hardie was elected under the Labour banner in 1892, Cunninghame Graham was defeated, ending his Parliamentary career.
There are vivid portraits of contemporaries and of lesser-known near-contemporaries -- of John Maclean and Jimmy Maxton, of 'King John' MacCormick, of Roland Eugene Muirhead, of Don Roberto Cunninghame Graham, and, not least, of the poet Hugh MacDiarmid, to name but a few.
 
 
 
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