Peter Cunningham (British writer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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British writer
Date of Birth: 01-Apr-1816
Place of Birth: Pimlico, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 18-May-1869
Profession: writer
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Peter Cunningham (British writer)
- Peter Nicolas Cunningham FSA (1816–1869) was a British writer born in London, son of the Scottish author Allan Cunningham and his wife Jean (née Walker, 1791–1866).
- Cunningham published several topographical and biographical studies, of which the most important are his Handbook of London (1849) and The Life of Drummond of Hawthornden (1833).
- He edited Extracts from the Accounts of the Revels at Court in the Reigns of Elizabeth and James I (1842) and Horace Walpole's Letters (1857). In 1851 he appeared in an amateur production of a play Not So Bad As We Seem by Edward Bulwer-Lytton along with Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Mark Lemon, John Tenniel, Douglas Jerrold and others.
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