James Cunningham, 14th Earl of Glencairn
James Cunningham | |
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14th Earl of Glencairn | |
Known for | patron of Robert Burns |
Born | (1749-06-01)1 June 1749 |
Died | 30 January 1791(1791-01-30) (aged 41) |
Nationality | Scottish |
James Cunningham, 14th Earl of Glencairn (1 June 1749 – 30 January 1791) was a Scottish nobleman, soldier and patron of Robert Burns.
Finlaystone House and estate in Inverclyde was the seat of the Earl of Glencairn and chief of clan Cunningham from 1405 to 1796.
Biography
James the second son of William, 13th Earl, was born in Kilmacolm, Renfrewshire. On the death vida patris of his elder brother William in 1768, he became Lord Kilmaurs; he succeeded to the Earldom, while on a tour of Norway, Lapland and Sweden, when his father died on 9 September 1775.
A Captain in the Western Fencibles Regiment from 1778, he served as one of the 16 Scottish representative peers from 1780 to 1784 and supported Fox's India Bill in 1783. In 1786 he sold his ancient family estate and former seat of Kilmaurs (the Cunninghams having moved their seat to Finlaystone in the 13th century) to Henrietta Scott later to become the Marchioness of Titchfield.
He is best remembered for his friendship with Robert Burns to whom he gave his patronage.[1][2] He was instrumental in the production of the Second Edition of Burn's Poems (Hill MDCCXL).
He died, unmarried, from consumption at Falmouth, soon after landing from Lisbon, where he had been wintering in the warmer winter clime. He was buried in the chancel of the Church of King Charles the Martyr, Falmouth. Upon his death Burns wrote a Lament beginning, "The wind blew hollow frae the hills," and ending with the lines, "But I'll remember thee, Glencairn, and a' that thou hast done for me."[2]
Glencairn was succeeded in the peerage by his brother John.
James is commemorated by a brass plaque in the Cunningham Earls of Glencairn's ancestral burial vault, the Glencairn Aisle, St Maurs-Glencairn Church, in Kilmaurs, East Ayrshire.
See also
- Lambroughton
References
- ^ Monuments and monumental inscriptions in Scotland: The Grampian Society, 1871
- ^ a b Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Glencairn, Earls of" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 119.
- Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1888). "Cunningham, James (1749-1791)" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 13. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- Brown, Peter, publisher, The Peerage of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1834, p. 88.
- Hill, D.O., The Land of Burns, Glasgow, 1840.
- Anderson, William, The Scottish Nation, Edinburgh, 1867, vol.v, p. 313.
- Wood, John Philip (Ed) The Peerage of Scotland by Sir Robert Douglas of Glenbervie, Bart, Edinburgh, 1813, vol.i, p. 640
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Preceded by | Earl of Glencairn 1775–1791 | Succeeded by |
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- "Handsome Nell" (1774)
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- The Kilmarnock volume (1786)
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- "The Cotter's Saturday Night" (1786)
- "The Battle of Sherramuir" (1787)
- "The Birks of Aberfeldy" (1787)
- "The Holy Tulzie" (1784)
- "Auld Lang Syne" (1788)
- "My Heart's in the Highlands" (1789)
- "Tam o' Shanter" (1790)
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- "The Slave's Lament" (1792)
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- "A Man's A Man for A' That" (1795)
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- Jean Armour (wife)
- Robert Burns Junior (son)
- Francis Wallace Burns (son)
- William Nicol Burns (son)
- Elizabeth 'Betty' Burns (natural daughter)
- James Glencairn Burns (son)
- Agnes Broun (mother)
- William Burnes (father)
- Gilbert Burns (brother)
- Agnes Burns (sister)
- Annabella Burns (sister)
- William Burns (brother)
- John Burns (brother)
- Isabella Burns (sister)
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- James Armour (father-in-law)
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- Robert Ainslie
- John Anderson
- John Bacon (landlord)
- John Ballantine
- Alison Begbie
- Thomas Blacklock
- Nelly Blair
- Richard Brown
- May Cameron
- Mary Campbell
- Margaret Chalmers
- Jenny Clow
- Alison Cockburn
- Alexander Cunningham (lawyer)
- Lord Glencairn
- Frances Dunlop
- Robert Fergusson
- Alexander Findlater
- Jean Gardner
- Jean Glover
- Robert Graham of Fintry
- Gavin Hamilton
- Helen Hyslop
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- John Lewars
- Janet Little
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- Robert Burns World Federation
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- Robert Burns's Commonplace Book 1783–1785
- Robert Burns's Interleaved Scots Musical Museum
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- Boston
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- Robert Burns's diamond point engravings
- Robert Burns and the Eglinton Estate
- Robert Burns Humanitarian Award
- The Loves of Robert Burns (1930 film)
- "The Marriage of Robin Redbreast and the Wren"
- "The Merry Muses of Caledonia"
- The Poetical Works of Janet Little, The Scotch Milkmaid
- A Manual of Religious Belief
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