James Wilson (songwriter)
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James Wilson was an 18th-century songwriter from Hexham, Northumberland.
Early life[edit]
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]
He was a poet and songwriter and had 4 songs published in Bell's Rhymes of Northern Bards in 1812.
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.
Works[edit]
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]
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