Edward S. Cunningham

Sir Edward Sheldon Cunningham (21 July 1859[1] – 28 April 1957[2]) was the editor of the Melbourne Argus from 1906 to 1928.

[4] The family shortly moved to Newcastle, New South Wales, then settled in Bendigo, where, following a private school education supplemented by instruction from his intelligent and cultured mother,[2] he began working as a copy boy for the Bendigo Advertiser.

After three years he returned to Hobart, where he worked as proofreader for the Mercury until he had become proficient at shorthand, when he was taken on as a reporter.

[1] One of his earliest "scoops" was to witness the arrival of the wounded and recently captured Ned Kelly at the North Melbourne station[5] when other reporters had assumed he would be taken to the Spencer Street headquarters.

[1] Cunningham married Maud Mary Jackson (died 1931) at Sandhurst (now part of Bendigo) on 29 September 1886.