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James Wilson was an 18th-century songwriter from Hexham, Northumberland.
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James Wilson was an 18th-century songwriter from Hexham, Northumberland.
James Wilson was a schoolteacher by trade. [1]
After spending some time teaching in Hexham, he suffered financial embarrassment and had to move away.
He chose Morpeth, where he met a fellow schoolteacher, who was also a poet and songwriter, Wallis Ogle, who managed to find him a post at Causey Park Bridge School (spelt "Cawsey" in John Bell's Rhymes of Northern Bards), where shortly after he died.[ ambiguous ]
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While living in Morpeth he collected together some of his works into a volume and they were published in a chapbook printed by T Angus, Newcastle in 1778.
These include:
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