An author is hoping the most comprehensive biography to date will result in fresh attention on the 'overlooked' founding president of the SNP
Robert Cunninghame Graham is also known for co-founding the Scottish Labour Party alongside Keir Hardie, and during his adventurous life he earned the nickname “Don Roberto” after a spell working alongside gauchos in South America.
“Our interests seem to be much narrower today, it would be very difficult to live that kind of life in the 21st century I think – he is a hard person to pigeonhole.” Jauncey said: “He had a very tempestuous time [in Parliament]. He was suspended three times for unparliamentary behaviour. He added: “His first campaign he was standing on a platform of land reform, abolition of the House of Lords, free school meals, eight hour working day – this was in 1886, it was astonishing.Cunninghame Graham grew disillusioned with the Liberals, who he felt were exploiting the workforce, and after getting to know Hardie in North Lanarkshire they founded the Scottish Labour Party in 1888.
“Every year on Bannockburn Day he would go and he would speak and there are photographs of him standing there with his fist raised orating.
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