Sir David Cunningham, 1st Baronet of Robertland was a Scottish landowner.
He was the son of David Cunningham of Robertland (d. 1619) and Margaret Fleming, daughter of Patrick Fleming of Barrochan.
His grandfather
David Cunningham of Robertland (d. 1607) was
Master of Work for
James VI of Scotland
James VI and I (James Charles Stuart; 19 June 1566 – 27 March 1625) was King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the Scottish and English crowns on 24 March 1603 until hi ...
.
Robertland is located near
Stewarton, in the old district of Cunninghame, and is now part of
East Ayrshire, Scotland.
A number of letters to him from his older cousin Sir
David Cunningham of
Auchenharvie
Auchenharvie is an area of Stevenston, North Ayrshire in Scotland.
There are therefore several local institutions, organizations and businesses that use this name. These include:
* Auchenharvie Colliery
* Auchenharvie Academy
* Auchenharvie Hous ...
survive in the
National Archives of Scotland. In 1633 Auchenharvie bought clothes in London for Robertland to wear in Edinburgh during the coronation visit of King Charles in 1633, following the colours and styles of clothes made by the king's tailor Patrick Black. On 1 May 1633 Auchenharvie wrote:
"Now you shall expect a very rich cloth of silver doublet with black satin breeches and satin cloak much laced as the fashion is. This suit is for all great days and holly days and when for variety you please to make this suit somewhat worse there is a black satin doublet suitable, also you shall have another fair new kind of wrought satin suit willow colour with silver lace doublet breeches and cloak, to which for change and variety your satin doublet will suit very well, you shall have stockings, garters, roses, points, girdles, hat bands, and some few facing bands to make you complete, they will cost you dear enough."
David Cunningham married Elizabeth Jousie in 1637, a daughter of the Edinburgh textile merchant and royal financier
Robert Jousie, and widow of the goldsmith James Heriot (d. 1634) a brother of
George Heriot.
Charles I made him a Baronet of
Nova Scotia on 25 November 1630, by
Letters Patent
Letters patent ( la, litterae patentes) ( always in the plural) are a type of legal instrument in the form of a published written order issued by a monarch, president or other head of state, generally granting an office, right, monopoly, titl ...
to him and his heirs male whatsoever.
In 1639 Robert Johnstone LLD, a friend of George Heriot who had been Robert Jousie's executor, bequeathed him a Portuguese ducat, with a diamond ring for Elizabeth Jousie's daughter.
[ Archibald Constable, ''Memoirs of George Heriot'' (Edinburgh, 1822), p. 177.]
References
Baronets in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia
Cavaliers
People from Ayrshire
David
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