Sir Edward Sheldon Cunningham

Sir Edward Sheldon Cunningham (21 July 1859 – 28 April 1957 and his wife Jane Eccles Cunningham, née Neilson, who married in 1855. 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, 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. when other reporters had assumed he would be taken to the Spencer Street headquarters. and retired in December 1928, succeeding Watterston on the company's board of management.

He was knighted in 1936 and retired from The Argus board of management in 1938. They had no children.