He served as a manager and precentor in the church in Duntocher and helped found its first Sunday school. Wilson was a member of the Secession Church, which had separated from the Church of Scotland. He also made sundials and composed hymn tunes as a hobby. Around 1800 he moved to Pollokshaws to work in the cotton mills and later moved to Duntocher, where he became a draftsman in the local mill. He also studied music and mathematics and became proficient enough in various subjects to become a part-time teacher to the villagers. Hugh Wilson learned the shoemaker trade from his father. Consequently, in Scotland this tune has always had melancholy associations. The tune's title presumably refers to the martyred Scottish Covenantor James Fenwick, whose last name is also the name of the town where Wilson lived. However, Smith's triple-meter arrangement is the one chosen most often. A legal dispute concerning who was the actual composer of MARTYRDOM arose and was settled in favor of Wilson. Edinburgh, Scotland, 1829) in his Sacred Music (1825), a year after Wilson's death. A triple-meter version of the tune was first published by Robert A. Duntocher, Scotland, 1824) adapted MARTYRDOM into a hymn tune in duple meter around 1800. MARTYRDOM was originally an eighteenth-century Scottish folk melody used for the ballad "Helen of Kirkconnel." Hugh Wilson (b.
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