Harold Boulton
Sir Harold Edwin Boulton, 2nd Baronet CVO CBE JP (1859 – 1 June 1935)born in Charlton then part of Kent, was an English baronet, songwriter and philanthropist, most famously author of the lyrics to the Skye Boat Song. He first became interested in Scottish folk songs as an undergraduate at Oxford. (Times obituary 1935)
A portrait by Bassano is in the National Portrait Gallery collection.[1]
References
- ‘BOULTON, Sir Harold (Edwin)’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 7 March 2013
- Anne Pimlott Baker, ‘Boulton, Sir Harold Edwin, second baronet (1859–1935)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 7 March 2013
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