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Author Description Allan Cunningham was a Scottish poet and author. <br /><br />He was born at Keir, near Dalswinton, Dumfries and Galloway, and first worked as a stonemason's apprentice. His father was a neighbour of <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/75831.Robert_Burns" title="Robert Burns" rel="nofollow noopener">Robert Burns</a> at Ellisland, and Allan with his brother James visited <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/50314.James_Hogg" title="James Hogg" rel="nofollow noopener">James Hogg</a>, the "Ettrick Shepherd", who became a friend to both. Cunningham's other brothers were the naval surgeon Peter Miller Cunningham (1789 - 1864) and the poet, Thomas Mounsey Cunningham (1776 - 1834).<br /><br />Cunningham gave his leisure to reading and writing imitations of old Scottish ballads. In 1809 he collected old ballads for <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4660495.Robert_Hartley_Cromek" title="Robert Hartley Cromek" rel="nofollow noopener">Robert Hartley Cromek</a>'s <i>Remains of Nithsdale and Galloway Song</i>; he sent in, however, poems of his own, which the editor inserted, even though he may have suspected their real authorship. It gained for him the friendship of <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4345.Walter_Scott" title="Walter Scott" rel="nofollow noopener">Walter Scott</a>.<br /><br />In 1810 Cunningham went to London, where he worked as a parliamentary reporter and journalist until 1814, when he became clerk of the works in the studio of the sculptor, Francis Chantrey, a post he kept until Chantrey's death in 1841. <br /><br /><br />

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