Metcalf Ross

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Metcalf Ross ({{circa|1754}} – 2 January 1858){{cite news |title=Deaths |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000085/18580108/037/0008 |accessdate=4 July 2018 |work=Newcastle Courant |date=8 January 1858 |page=8}} was an English master printer and sometime poet/songwriter in Tyneside.{{cite web|title=Allan's Illustrated Edition of Tyneside songs and readings|year=1891 |publisher=Newcastle-upon-Tyne, T. & G. Allan |url=https://archive.org/stream/allansillustrat00firgoog/allansillustrat00firgoog_djvu.txt}}{{cite book|title=Allan's Illustrated Edition of Tyneside songs and readings with lives, portraits and autographs of the writers, and notes on the songs. Revised Edition|year=1891|publisher=Thomas & Gorge Allan, 18 Blackett Street, and 34 Collingwood Street, (Newcastle upon Tyne) – Sold by W. Allan, 80 Grainqer Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, B. Allan, North Shields and Walter Scott. London}} He was born in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear.1851 England Census

There are two noted works by 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,{{cite web|title=The Tyne Songster|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-MIUAAAAQAAJ&q=Cecil+Pitt+&pg=PA89|last1 = Songster|first1 = Tyne|year = 1840}}{{Dead link|date=April 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} and "The Fishwives Carol" – by France on page 180 of Songs of the Bards of the Tyne of 1850.{{cite book|title=Songs of the Bards of the Tyne|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fLIDAAAAQAAJ|last1=River|first1=Tyne|year=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.