Henry Cunningham (c. 1678–1736), of Boquhan, Gorgunnock, Stirling, was a Scottish Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1709 to 1734.
He supported a Tory candidate in a disputed election and was listed among the ‘worthy patriots’ who exposed the mismanagements of the previous ministry, but otherwise sided with the Whigs for most of the Parliament.
He voted on 17 January 1712 against the Tory motion to send the younger Robert Walpole to the Tower, and on 7 February against the Scottish toleration bill.
He presented an address on the peace from Stirling Burgh in March but also voted against the ministry over the French commerce bill in June.
He was returned unopposed for Stirling Burghs at the 1715 British general election and developed his connection with the Duke of Argyll.
When the work of the commissioners for the forfeited estates ended in 1725, he resumed the post of muster master in Scotland.
Cunningham was getting into financial difficulties and at the end of 1733, he asked Walpole for a post freeing him ‘from the trouble of parliaments and elections’.
The author described Cunningham as uniting ‘a natural high spirit and daring character with an affectation of delicacy of address and manners amounting to foppery.'.