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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

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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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