James Wilson (songwriter)

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

James Wilson was a schoolteacher by trade.^[1]

After spending some time teaching in Hexham, he suffered financial embarrassment moved to Morpeth, where he met a fellow schoolteacher, who was also a poet and songwriter, Wallis Ogle, who found him a post at Cawsey Park Bridge School, where shortly after he died.

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. He had four songs compiled in Bell's Rhymes of Northern Bards in 1812.

• 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]

• Geordie
• Rhymes of Northern Bards

• 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)