Susanna Blamire ("The Muse of Cumberland") was born at Thackwood-nook in the parish of Sowerby in Cumberland. The ballad is also known as The Siller Crown and was originally published as a single sheet broadside by Napier, with the author and composer listed as unknown. There are several different verses, these are as they appear in the Scottish Orpheus (circa 1921).

Bishop is best known as a composer of light operas. He also wrote musical pieces for various plays and arranged operas by well-known composers. Bishop was born in London in 1786. He was trained by Francesco Bianchi. At the age of eighteen he wrote Angelina and in 1806 he wrote Tamarlan and Bajezet which was produced at the King's Theatre. In 1810 he was employed by Covent Garden for three years as composer and director. He later conducted music at King's Theatre, Haymarket (1816-17), Drury Lane (from 1825), and Vauxhall Gardens (1830). He became professor of music at the Universities of Edinburgh (1841) and Oxford (1848). In 1842 he was knighted. He was one of the original members of the Philharmonic Society. Bishop is remembered today for his songs Home, Sweet Home and Lo, Here the Gentle Lark.

• Henry Rowley Bishop
• Henry Rowley Bishop