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"The Song of the Western Men", also known as "Trelawny", is a Cornish patriotic song, composed by Louisa T. Clare for lyrics by Robert Stephen Hawker. The poem was first published anonymously in The Royal Devonport Telegraph and Plymouth Chronicle in September 1826, over 100 years after the events.
Robert Stephen Hawker (1864) Robert Stephen Hawker 1869 Robert Stephen Hawker (1803–1875) was a British Anglican priest, poet, antiquarian and reputed eccentric, known to his parishioners as Parson Hawker.
The song contains the line Why forty thousand Cornish boys shall knawa the reason why. [1] According to Cornish historian Robert Morton Nance, it was possibly the inspiration for R. S. Hawker's "The Song of the Western Men" which was written in 1824 and contains a strikingly similar line: Here's twenty thousand Cornish men will know the reason why!
The legend of Cruel Coppinger recognised today, is that recorded by Rev. Robert Stephen Hawker, the composer of the Cornish anthem The Song of the Western Men, who collected the existing legends and, with a few additions of his own, published them in Charles Dickens' magazine All the Year Round in 1866. His story was prefaced with the verse:
Cornwall portal; Pages in category "Cornish patriotic songs" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. ... The Song of the Western Men
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Song Year adopted Lyricist(s) Composer(s) Audio Cornwall The Song of the Western Men (Trelawney) Unofficial: Robert Stephen Hawker: Louisa T. Clare County Durham Blaydon Races: Unofficial: George Ridley: Unknown Cumberland D'ye ken John Peel: Unofficial: John Woodcock Graves: Unknown Lincolnshire The Lincolnshire Poacher: Unofficial: Unknown ...
He was born at Trelawne in the parish of Pelynt, Cornwall, the eldest surviving son of Sir Jonathan Trelawny, 2nd Baronet, and Mary Seymour, daughter of Sir Edward Seymour, 2nd Baronet. He was educated at Westminster School and then went to Christ Church, Oxford at the start of the Michaelmas term of 1668 where he distinguished himself as a ...