Career
His best known song is probably "Burdon’s Address to his Cavalry". James Morrison, born c. 1800 in Morrison"s Court (now demolished), off Groat Market, Newcastle.
After completing his apprenticeship as a painter, he worked for some years as a Journeyman in Newcastle, before moving c1830 to Edinburgh, and from that date little is known of his life.
He was a nephew of the scholar Doctor Morrison, who, through hard work and self-teaching had risen from an Apprentice joiner to one of the most eminent scholars of his time.
