Cunningham, Peter (1816-1869)

English writer and editor, the son of the Scottish writer Allan Cunningham. His chief publication was a Handbook for London (1849), to which later guides have been much indebted. He wrote about the lives of the architect Inigo Jones (1848) and the mistress of Charles II, Nell Gwynn (1852). He edited the works of William Drummond of Hawthornden and Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets as well as his father's Life of Sir David Wilkie (1843) and Poems and Songs (1847).