title: James Wilson (songwriter)
text: # James Wilson (songwriter)
  
  James Wilson was an 18th-century songwriter from Hexham, Northumberland.
  
  ## Early life
  
  James Wilson was a schoolteacher by trade.
  
  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.
  
  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:
  
  * The Banks of the Tyne
  * A Few Lines on Laying the Foundation Stone of Hexham Bridge
  * Ode - "Addressed to Sir Walter Blackett, Bart." - was "wrote" by the author on the very day the building of Hexham Bridge was undertaken
  * A Song by Mr James Wilson of Cawsey Park on Mr Coughan and family, leaving Hebron Hill
  