List of Geordie songwriters

This is a list of songwriters in the Geordie dialect of English, spoken in Tyneside.

Poets and songwriters

Pre-20th century

20th century and forward

• Robert Allen (poet)
• Eric Boswell - songwriter/poet
• Henry Brewis - poet, writer, cartoonist, illustrator
• Bill Griffiths (poet)

Antiquarians, historians, authors, mining engineers, scientists and similar

• John Balmbra - Entrepreneur, owner of the famous Music Hall
• Sir David Brewster - subject of a song and a scientist/engineer and inventor of the Kaleidoscope c1820. The song "The Pitman's Skellyscope" written by William Mitford appears in a great many chapbooks, possibly due to its novelty value, including on page 147 of Thomas Allan's Illustrated Edition of Tyneside Songs and Readings
• John Collingwood Bruce - Author and editor, He and John Stokoe co-edited "Northumbrian Minstrelsy"
• Mr W. Cail - an author/historian/antiquarian who collected manuscripts, particularly relating to the songs and poems of Edward Chicken. He is mentioned on page 5 of Thomas Allan's Illustrated Edition of Tyneside Songs and Readings. There was a W Cail practising as a solicitor in Newcastle around that time, but it is not known if they were one and the same.
• Edward Charlton - writer & historian
• Dr Clark - historian/antiquarian whose brief comment on John Shield's work is noted on page 65 of Thomas Allan's Illustrated Edition of Tyneside Songs and Readings
• James Thomas Clephan - Journalist and songwriter/poet
• David Dippie Dixon - A historian who added much to the knowledge of the area and its language
• Scott Dobson - A 20th-century writer of prose and humorous books, mainly in broad Geordie dialect
• John Woodham Dunn - An Anglican vicar and author who added much to the knowledge of the area and its language
• Dennis Embleton - Medical doctor, surgeon, naturalist, historian and poet
• George Clementson Greenwell - A mining engineer, whose writings defined many of the words and terms used in mining
• Richard Oliver Heslop - historian/lexicologist/songwriter/poet/ etc.
• Eneas Mackenzie - A historian who added much to the knowledge of the area and its language
• Sir Walter Scott - He may have transcribed "Bewick and the Graeme'" according to the comment on page 25 of Stokoe and Bruce'a Northumbrian Minstrelsy.
• James Shotton - Artist
• Robert Surtees - A historian who added much to the knowledge of the area and its language
• Robert Wilson - A physician, whose published papers on mining added to the area's history.

See also

• Geordie dialect words
• Allan's Illustrated Edition of Tyneside Songs and Readings
• Fordyce’s Tyne Songster
• France's Songs of the Bards of the Tyne - 1850
• The Bishoprick Garland (1834, by Sharp)
• Rhymes of Northern Bards
• Marshall's Collection of Songs, Comic, Satirical 1827
• The Songs of the Tyne by Ross
• The Songs of the Tyne by Walker
• Marshall's A Collection of Original Local Songs

References

External links

• Allan's Illustrated Edition of Tyneside Songs and Readings
• The Tyne Songster by W & T Fordyce – 1840
• France's Songs of the Bards of the Tyne – 1850
• Marshall's Collection of Songs, Comic, Satirical 1827
• Sharpe's Bishoprick Garland 1834
• Bards of Newcastle
• Wor Geordie songwriters
• Bell’s Rhymes of Northern Bards