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- Waddell Cunningham (1729 - 1797) was wealthy merchant and civic leader in late eighteenth-century Belfast, Ireland, who, both in his business ventures and political interventions, was opposed by the nascent democratic spirit of his time. He cut a liberal figure as a patron of the Belfast Charitable Society and its Poor House; as a commander of the Volunteer patriot militia; and as a subscriber to the costs of erecting Belfast's first Catholic chapel. But from within his own majority Presbyterian community this reputation was challenged. In retaliation for his land speculation and evictions, in 1771 his house in Belfast was attacked and destroyed by tenant "Steelboys" from his home region north of the town; in 1786 public protest, organised from within a Presbyterian church to which he had also subscribed, forced him to abandon plans to commission ships in the port for the Atlantic slave trade; and in 1792, following Bastille Day celebrations of the French Revolution, his attempt to water down a town resolution in favour of full and immediate Catholic emancipation was defeated by his Volunteer comrades styling themselves the United Irishmen. As preparations were laid for the 1798 Rebellion, Cunningham was prominent among the town's loyalists in volunteering his services to the local yeomanry. (en)
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- Belfast Charitable Society, Belfast Ballast Board, Belfast Chamber of Commerce (en)
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- Cunningham, in the uniform of a captain of the Belfast Volunteer Company, by Robert Home, circa 1784 (en)
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- Supporting construction of Belfast's first Roman Catholic chapel; inviting subscriptions to a Belfast slaveship company (en)
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- Trans-Atlantic trader, Plantation and Slave Owner, financier, industrialist (en)
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- Waddell Cunningham (1729 - 1797) was wealthy merchant and civic leader in late eighteenth-century Belfast, Ireland, who, both in his business ventures and political interventions, was opposed by the nascent democratic spirit of his time. He cut a liberal figure as a patron of the Belfast Charitable Society and its Poor House; as a commander of the Volunteer patriot militia; and as a subscriber to the costs of erecting Belfast's first Catholic chapel. But from within his own majority Presbyterian community this reputation was challenged. In retaliation for his land speculation and evictions, in 1771 his house in Belfast was attacked and destroyed by tenant "Steelboys" from his home region north of the town; in 1786 public protest, organised from within a Presbyterian church to which he had (en)
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