Bard of Tyneside - Robert Gilchrist (1797 - 1844)
  • Introduction
  • About
  • Biography
    • Ballast Hills
  • Chronology
  • Bibliography
  • Blog
  • Songs
    • On the Battle of Waterloo
    • Sonnet on the shortest day
    • To Scotland
    • April Gowk
    • Tanfield Arch
    • Grace Darling
  • Images
    • Photos
  • News
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Robert Gilchrist (1797 – 1844), was a Tyneside sailmaker and 'broadside balladeer'. He composed over a hundred original pieces of poetry and song, including two sonnets to the heroism of lifeboatwoman Grace Darling and three volumes of verse, Gothalbert and Hisanna (1822), A Collection of Songs, Local and Sentimental (1824) and Poems (1826). This website provides further information of his compositions, life and times.
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