Peter Cunningham (British writer)
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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.
Family
Cunningham married Zenobia Martin (1816–1901).[2] They had three children Edith, Norah, and Walter Cunningham (1850–1936).Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
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