One of the earliest things known about her is that she married William Cunyngham, who came to notice when his mother's grandfather died in 1728.
[2] The baronetcy had been created for Sir John Dick Bt (1719–1804) as the British Consul at Leghorn.
[3] Lady Anne and her maidservant caused consternation by appearing in public in Edinburgh dressed as boys.
Her peers and friends were also said to have been embarrassed when she published lampoons and verses of a "coarse" nature, for which she was censured in the Dictionary of National Biography.
The title passed to her brother-in-law, the physician Sir Alexander Dick,[2] who moved into the family seat of Prestonfield House in Edinburgh.