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Graham, Robert

Graham, Robert, later Robert Cunninghame Graham, c.1735–1797, Scottish poet and politician. He is best known for the lyric “If Doughty Deeds My Lady Please.” He inherited sizable estates and served (1794–96) in Parliament, where he proposed a bill of rights, which though rejected in some ways foreshadowed the Reform Bill of 1832.

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