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John Taylor (1840–1891) was a 19th-century Dunston born songwriter and poet (whose material won many prizes) and an accomplished artist and engraver. == Early life == John Taylor was born in 1840 in Dunston, Gateshead, (which at the time was in County Durham but is now in Tyne and Wear). John Taylor began adult life as a clerk at the Newcastle Central Station After several years he became impatient at not gaining, in his mind, sufficient promotion, and left to “better himself” as a traveller for a brewery. Like many other short cuts this, in time, he found had its drawbacks, and possibly the slower progress of the railway might in the end have been better. He was a prolific writer of songs and many won prizes in the competitions run by both John W Chater and Ward's Almanacs (Ward's Directory of Newcastle upon Tyne and the Adjacent Villages; Together with an Almanac, a Town and County Guide and a Commercial Advertiser). It was to him Joe Wilson allegedly said whilst talking in the Adelaide Hotel, "Jack, ye can write a sang aboot as weel as me, but yor sangs divn't sing, an' mine dis." He was also a first class and very versatile artist, as was his predecessor Edward Corvan, and an accomplished wood-engraver providing the plates used for the pictures of William Purvis (Blind Willie), Captain Benjamin Starky, Joseph Philip Robson, and Geordy Black, the character played by Rowland Harrison, in Thomas Allan’s Illustrated Edition of Tyneside Songs and Readings of 1891. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Taylor (Geordie songwriter)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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