David Hobkirk was a Tyneside poet and songwriter in the early to middle 19th century.
He, like William Oliver and Mr P. Galloway, appeared to have been a member of the local Corinthian Society (a group of businessmen who regularly met in the local ale-houses to talk business and friendship).
He wrote numerous works on many and varied topics and several books of his works were published. These include :-
He also wrote "The praise of Corinth and the local Corinthians" given on 4 June 1827, and "To the Memory of R. Young", which appeared on pages 233 and 232 in Thomas Allan's Illustrated Edition of Tyneside Songs and Readings. Both these works, like several others, were signed using his initials "D.GH".
Otherwise very little information is available.
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