Robert Cunninghame-graham
Who is Robert Cunninghame-graham
Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham (24 May 1852 – 20 March 1936) was a Scottish politician, writer, journalist and adventurer. He was a Liberal Party Member of Parliament (MP); the first ever socialist member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom; a founder, and the first president, of the Scottish Labour Party; a founder of the National Party of Scotland in 1928; and the first president of the Scottish National Party in 1934.
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Cunninghame Graham was the eldest son of Major William Bontine of the Renfrew Militia and formerly a Cornet in the Scots Greys with whom he served in Ireland. His mother was the Hon. Anne Elizabeth Elphinstone-Fleeming, daughter of Admiral Charles Elphinstone-Fleeming of Cumbernauld and a Spanish noblewoman, Doña Catalina Paulina Al...
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- Mamboward: on this day in scotland
20 march 1936:
the death in buenos aires of robert cunninghame graham, the socialist politician who became the first president of the scottish national party.
- Pub_hist: john lavery
'don roberto': robert bontine cunninghame graham on pampa
- Scotlandlabour: in 1934, the national party of scotland amalgamated with the scottish party to become the scottish national party (snp) - which still exists to this day - and robert bontine cunninghame graham became the snp’s first honorary president.
- Scotlandlabour: did you know, the scottish labour party was once an actual political party, from 1888-1895?
everyone already knows about keir hardie, but he wasn’t the only socialist on the block...so here’s a wee thread.
meet another one of the founders: robert bontine cunninghame graham
- Johnsimkin: some of the protesters were arrested and later two of the leaders of the march, john burns and robert cunninghame graham, were arrested and later sentenced to a six-week prison sentence.
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