James Wilson (songwriter)

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

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 and 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.

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

These include:

See also

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