Cunnington was born in 1878 in Devizes, Wiltshire, the son of Annette Wright née Leach (1848–1919) and Henry Alfred Cunnington (1850–1879), a wine merchant, and was … See more

During World War I Cunnington served as a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps. In 1918 he married Phillis Webb who was also a qualified doctor and for a number of years they had a … See more

In a letter to The Times in November 1937 Cunnington suggested a national costume museum. He also suggested that he would donate his collection to the nation if such a museum was established, if a museum was not established he would offer his collection for sale … See more

Tozer, J. (1986). Cunnington's Interpretation of Dress. Costume, 20(1), 1–17. See more

Cunnington and his wife collected clothes, and they soon had to build a large shed in the garden to house them all. By the end of the 1930s, they had about a thousand costumes, some of … See more

• Cunnington, Cecil Willett, (1935) Fashion and Women's Attitudes in the Nineteenth Century, London: W. Heinemann ltd.
• Cunnington, … See more