Editing Cunninghame Graham (section)

==Youth==
He spent most of his childhood on the family [[Estate (house)|estate]] of [[Finlaystone]] in [[Renfrewshire]] and Ardoch in [[Dunbartonshire]], Scotland, with his younger brothers Charles and Malise.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.FinlaystoneHouse.com/history.htm|title=Finlaystone House|author=Francesca Nobile for Fisheyes}}</ref>

After being educated at [[Harrow School|Harrow]] [[Public school (UK)|public school]] in England, Robert finished his education in [[Brussels]], [[Belgium]], before moving to [[Argentina]] to make his fortune [[cattle ranch]]ing. He became known as a great adventurer and [[gaucho]] there, and was affectionately known as '''Don Roberto'''. He also travelled in [[Morocco]] disguised as a [[Turkish people|Turkish]] [[sheikh]] to find the "forbidden" city of [[Taroudant]] but was captured by a Caid (Si Taieb ben Si Ahmed El Hassan El Kintafi),<ref>Mogreb-El-Acksa, Chapter 6</ref> prospected for gold in Spain, befriended [[Buffalo Bill]] in [[Texas]], and taught [[fencing]] in [[Mexico City]], having travelled there by [[wagon train]] from [[San Antonio de Bexar]] with his young bride ''sic'' "[[Gabriela Cunninghame Graham|Gabrielle Marie de la Balmondiere]]", a supposed half-French, half-[[Chile]]an poet.<ref>In 1986, some eighty years after her death, it was discovered that she was really Caroline Horsfall (the daughter of a [[Ripon]] Doctor), who had repeatedly run away to the stage. She and Don Roberto had, with the obvious connivance of his mother, the redoubtable Hon. Anne Elizabeth Bontine (a society hostess of some note), concocted a whole new identity for her to make her more acceptable to the family's social set.</ref>