George Godfrey Cunningham

George Godfrey Cunningham (c. 1802 – 23 September 1860) was a Scottish writer, compiler, and translator.[1][2][3]

Biography

After publishing a poem ("A Choice") in Alexander Whitelaw's The Casquet of Literary Gems (1828),[4] Cunningham's first full work was Foreign Tales and Traditions (1829), published by Blackie, Fullarton & Company. It was a collection of translations of several European stories, mostly German Romanticist literature, which was popular in Britain in the 1820s.[5][6] This included five stories from Grimms' Fairy Tales, that were heavily based on the earlier translations by Edgar Taylor and David Jardine.[7] His Lives of Eminent and Illustrious Englishmen (1834–1837) aimed to teach English history through biographies of its leading figures. It was patronised by royalty and Henry Brougham, and though it initially won praise, the biographies of its later volumes were less well connected, and began to rely heavily on extracts from the subjects' memoirs.[8]

By 1838, Cunningham was living in Glasgow.[9] On 2 August 1843, he married Isabella Crawford Laurie (1812–1903) in St Cuthbert's Church, Edinburgh.[10] On 18 March 1845, their only son,[11] also named George Godfrey Cunningham (1845–1904), was born.[12] Around 1846,[13] they moved from Glasgow[14] to Redcol (also spelled Redcoll[15] or Redcoal[16]) in Gladsmuir parish, East Lothian,[17] where Cunningham was one of twenty-seven landowners in that parish eligible to vote for their member of parliament.[15] They continued to live at Redcol until at least 1852,[18][16] but by 1855 had moved to Hillside Crescent in Edinburgh,[19][20] before finally moving to Windermere in Cumbria by 1859.[21][3]

He was a shareholder of the Bank of London,[20] partner of the publishing firm Fullarton & Co.,[22] and a member of the Camden Society,[23] Percy Society,[24] Royal Geographical Society,[25] and Granger Society.[26] In 1854, he chaired a meeting of the shareholders of the Caledonian Railway and Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, to get the two companies to stop lowering their fares in a price war which was negatively affecting the value of both companies.[27]

His Gazetteer of the World (1850–1856) was considered his greatest and principal work, and he was in the process of preparing an improved edition of it at the time of his death.[2][25] In addition to his main works, he wrote short biographies of his friend Reverend John Morell Mckenzie,[28] Church of Scotland minister John Brown Patterson,[29] and seventeenth century Church of England cleric Jeremy Taylor.[30]

Cunningham died on 23 September 1860 at Elleray Bank, Windermere.[3]

Bibliography

  • Foreign Tales and Traditions (1829) 2 volumes
    • Tales from the German (1854) second edition of first volume
    • German Stories (1855) second edition of second volume
  • Lives of Eminent and Illustrious Englishmen from Alfred the Great to the Latest Times (1834–1837) 8 volumes
    • A History of England in the Lives of Englishmen (1849–1852) 8 volumes (revised edition)
    • The English Nation; or, A History of England in the Lives of Englishmen (1863–1868) 8 volumes (revised edition)
  • Parliamentary Gazetteer of Scotland (1848–1851) 2 volumes[25]
  • Gazetteer of the World (1850–1856) 7 volumes[25]
  • James Bell's A System of Geography (editor of later editions)[25]

References

  1. ^ Smith, A. J., ed. (2002) [1996]. "George Godfrey Cunningham". John Donne: The Critical Heritage. London: Routledge. p. 363. ISBN 9780203196793.
  2. ^ a b "Our Weekly Gossip". The Athenaeum. No. 1719. 6 October 1860. p. 453.
  3. ^ a b c "Cunningham, George Godfrey", England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1860, p. 249
  4. ^ Cunningham, George Godfrey (1828). "A Choice". In Whitelaw, Alex (ed.). The Casquet of Literary Gems. Vol. 1. Glasgow: Blackie, Fullarton & Co. p. 206.
  5. ^ Blamires, David (2009). "Musäus and the Beginnings of the Fairytale". Telling Tales: The Impact of Germany on English Children's Books 1780–1918. OBP collection. Open Book Publishers. pp. 51–61. ISBN 9781906924119.
  6. ^ Batt, Max (October 1907). "The German Story in England About 1826". Modern Philology. 5 (2). University of Chicago Press: 169–176. doi:10.1086/386738. S2CID 161298615.
  7. ^ Seago, K. (2003). "What's in a Title? A Bibliographical Study of the Marketing of Grimms' Fairy Tales in English Translation in the Nineteenth Century". New Comparison. 35–36: 108.
  8. ^ Crook, Nora (2016) [2002]. "General Editor's Introduction". In Mazzeo, Tilar J. (ed.). Mary Shelley's Literary Lives and Other Writings. Vol. 1. London and New York: Routledge. p. xxiv. doi:10.4324/9780429349751. ISBN 978-1-85196-716-2.
  9. ^ Thoms, William J., ed. (1839). "Members of the Camden Society, 1838–9". Anecdotes and Traditions Illustrative of Early English History and Literature. London: Camden Society.
  10. ^ "Isabella Crawford Laurie", Scotland, Marriages, 1561–1910
  11. ^ Foster, Joseph (1888). Alumni Oxonienses 1715–1886. Vol. 1. Oxford: Parker and Co. p. 326.
  12. ^ Grant, Francis James (1944). The Faculty of Advocates in Scotland, 1532–1943. Scottish Record Society. p. 48.
  13. ^ Nichols, John Gough, ed. (1846). "Members of the Camden Society, 1845–6". The Chronicle of Calais in the Reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII to the Year 1540. London: Camden Society.
  14. ^ Bruce, John, ed. (1845). "Members of the Camden Society, 1844–5". Verney Papers: Notes of Proceedings in the Long Parliament. London: Camden Society.
  15. ^ a b East Lothian Annual Register. Haddington: Neill & Sons. 1848. p. 17. hdl:2027/uc1.a0002643328.
  16. ^ a b Directory to Gentlemen's Seats, Villages, Etc., in Scotland. Edinburgh: Sutherland and Knox. 1852. p. 141.
  17. ^ "Members of the Camden Society, 1846–7". The Camden Miscellany. Vol. 1. London: Camden Society. 1847.
  18. ^ Nichols, John Gough, ed. (1848). "Members of the Camden Society, 1847–8". The Diary of Henry Machyn. London: Camden Society.
  19. ^ Larking, Lambert B., ed. (1857). "Members of the Camden Society, 1855–6". The Knights Hospitallers in England. Camden Society.
  20. ^ a b "The New Metropolitan Banks". Bankers' Magazine. Vol. 16. London: Groombridge and Sons. 1856. p. 343.
  21. ^ "Fellows". The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London. 29. London: John Murray: xxiii. 1859.
  22. ^ Dove, John E. (13 October 1860). "The Late Mr. Godfrey Cunningham". The Literary Gazette. Vol. 5, no. 120. p. 307.
  23. ^ Williams, Sarah, ed. (1861). "Report of the Council of the Camden Society, Elected 2nd May, 1860". Letters Written By John Chamberlain. London: Camden Society.
  24. ^ "The Percy Society". A Paraphrase on the Seven Penitential Psalms, in English Verse. London: Percy Society. 1842. p. 11.
  25. ^ a b c d e Murchison, Roderick Impey (1861). "Address to the Royal Geographical Society of London". Journal of the Royal Geographical Society: cxviii–cxix.
  26. ^ The Granger Society Prospectus. July 1841. p. 5.
  27. ^ "Caledonian—Edinburgh & Glasgow". The Railway Times. 18 November 1854. p. 1238.
  28. ^ "Memoirs of J. Morell Mackenzie". The Eclectic Review. Vol. 20. July 1846. p. 79.
  29. ^ Allibone, Samuel Austin (1858). "Patterson, John Brown". A Critical Dictionary of English Literature, and British and American Authors. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co.
  30. ^ The Olive Branch. Edinburgh: H. S. Baynes. 1831. pp. 125–129.

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