James Wilson (songwriter)

James Wilson was an 18th-century songwriter from Hexham, Northumberland, England.

Early life

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 ]}

Wilson was a poet and songwriter and had four songs published in Bell's Rhymes of Northern Bards in 1812.

While living in Morpeth, Wilson collected together some of his works into a volume and they were published in a chapbook printed by T Angus, Newcastle, in 1778.

Works

These include:

• The Banks of the Tyne ^[1]
• A Few Lines on Laying the Foundation Stone of Hexham Bridge ^[1]
• Ode - "Addressed to Sir Walter Blackett, Bart." - was "wrote" by the author on the very day the building of Hexham Bridge was undertaken ^[1]
• A Song by Mr James Wilson of Cawsey Park on Mr Coughan and family, leaving Hebron Hill ^[1]

See also

• Geordie dialect words
• Rhymes of Northern Bards

References

1. Bell, John (1812). Bell's Rhymes of Northern Bards 1912.

External links

• Rhymes of Northern Bards: Being a Curious Collection of Old and New Songs and Poems, Peculiar to the Counties of Newcastle Upon Tyne, Northumberland, and Durham, J. Bell, 1812. (Google Books)