Dictionary of Indian Biography/Cunningham, Sir Henry Stewart
CUNNINGHAM, SIR HENRY STEWART (1832–)
Born 1832 : son of Rev. J. W. Cunningham, Vicar of Harrow : educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Oxford : called to the bar, 1859 : Advocate-General in Madras, 1872 : Judge of the Calcutta High Court, 1877–87 : Member of the Indian Famine Commission, 1878–9 : author of The Chronicles of Dustypore, The Heriots, The Caruleans, Sybilla, and other novels : also Earl Canning ("Rulers of India" series). He married in 1877 a daughter of Lord Lawrence : K.C.I.E. in 1889.