 In 1669 Sir John Cunningham of Caprington, a distinguished lawyer, was created a Baronet of Nova Scotia by Charles II.At the Battle of Culloden in 1746 the British artillery which fired Grapeshot at the advancing Jacobites was Captain Cunningham's Company, although its commander, Archibald Cunningham, had been dead for two months.Alexander Cunningham was a historical writer who was the British envoy to Venice from 1715 to 1720.