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Description: | Comic song on a local Judge's mishap.In the early nineteenth century it was customary for the Judges of Newcastle, attended by the Mayor and other members of the Corporation, to go in the town's barge to Tynemouth. On one of these occasions one of the Judges, whilst stepping into or from the barge, slipped into the water. This gave rise to the song 'My Lord 'Size'.The song was written by John Shield. Shield was born in Broomhaugh, near Hexham, in 1768 and in conjunction with his brother Hugh ran a family grocery business in Newcastle. His first literary offering appeared in 1802 in the Chronicle and Shield went on to write well known Tyneside songs 'Lord 'Size', 'Oxygen Mask', and 'Fair Delia'. John Shield died in his native Broomhaugh on 6th August, 1848.This song is part of the John Bell Collection. ; A collection of broadsheets on various subjects, with accompanying press cuttings and manuscript notes in the hand of John Bell. | Publisher: | Marshall Gateshead ; Tyne and Wear | Rights holder: | rights holder : Newcastle University | Subjects: | law and order & festivities & accidents mishaps and disasters Judges & trials & law | Temporal: | start=1801;end=1840; | Source: | Folk Archive Resource North East | Identifier: | farne:N0101701 | Go to resource |
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