Metcalfe Ross

Metcalfe Ross was a 19th-century Tyneside master printer and sometime Poet/songwriter.

There are two noted works by Metcalfe Ross.

The first, a song, is given different titles in the different chapbooks. It is entitled “A New Year's Carol (A) (For the Fishwives of Newcastle)” - by Fordyce on page 138 of The Tyne Songster of 1840, and “The Fishwives Carol” – by France on page 180 of Songs of the Bards of the Tyne of 1850.

The second work, a poem, entitled “Address to Robert Emery” – allegedly written as a tribute on the death of Emery in 1870 – and given on page 290 of Allan’s Illustrated Edition of Tyneside Songs and Readings of 1891.