Robert Nunn (songwriter)

[1] A roof slater by trade, after suffering a serious injury that cost him his vision, he was unable to continue employment, taking up music to support his wife and three children.

He was heavily built, and a great favourite at parties and entertainment nights at the clubs, pubs and halls.

Despite his blindness and lack of fingers, his home life seemed to be happy, and he even wrote one of his songs, “Roby’s Wife’s Lamentation”, about it.

Suffering the effects of a few drinks, some of his songs then contained much innuendo and were rather coarse, which seemed to please his audiences of both women and men.

One of his fellow songwriters, Robert Emery, wrote of him in his song, "The Sandgate Lassie's Lament".