Sir Harold Edwin Boulton, 2nd Baronet, (7 August 1859 – 1 June 1935), son of
Sir Samuel Bagster Boulton, 1st Baronet
Sir Samuel Bagster Boulton, 1st Baronet (1830 – April 27, 1918) was the first baronet of Copped Hall, a Knight of Grace of the Order of St John of Jerusalem in England, Lord of the Manor of Totteridge, Justice of the Peace, and Deputy Lieuten ...
of
Copped Hall
Copped Hall, also known as Copt Hall or Copthall, is a mid-18th-century English country house close to Waltham Abbey, Essex, which has been undergoing restoration since 1999. Copped Hall is visible from the M25 motorway between junctions 26 and ...
, born in Charlton then part of Kent, was an English
baronet
A baronet ( or ; abbreviated Bart or Bt) or the female equivalent, a baronetess (, , or ; abbreviation Btss), is the holder of a baronetcy, a hereditary title awarded by the British Crown. The title of baronet is mentioned as early as the 14th ...
, songwriter and philanthropist, most famously author of the lyrics to the "
Skye Boat Song
"The Skye Boat Song" is a late 19th-century Scottish song recalling the journey of Prince Charles Edward Stuart ("Bonnie Prince Charlie") from Benbecula to the Isle of Skye as he evaded capture by government troops after his defeat at the Batt ...
". He first became interested in Scottish folk songs as an undergraduate at Oxford.
A portrait by Bassano is in the
National Portrait Gallery collection.
He married, first, Adelaide Lucy Davidson, daughter of Duncan Davidson of
Tulloch Castle
Tulloch Castle is located in the town of Dingwall in the Highlands of Scotland. It dates at least to the late 14th century as the birthplace of Mariota Leslie, daughter of Euphemia I, countess of Ross. Mariota was the wife of Donald Macdonald, Lo ...
, and had three children, Louise Kythé Veronica Boulton (18 September 1890 – 21 May 1934), Christian Harold Ernest Boulton (17 February 1897 – 12 October 1917) and
Denis Duncan Harold Owen Boulton, 3rd Baronet Boulton, known as "Harold" (10 December 1892 – 10 August 1968), who was a survivor of the 1915 sinking of the
RMS ''Lusitania''.
After his first wife's death on 26 April 1926, he was married again, to Margaret Cunningham Lyons, daughter of James Lennox Lyons, on 29 December 1926.
References
External links
*‘BOULTON, Sir Harold (Edwin)’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 200
accessed 7 March 2013Anne Pimlott Baker, ‘Boulton, Sir Harold Edwin, second baronet (1859–1935)
€™, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 7 March 2013
1859 births
1935 deaths
British songwriters
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Commanders of the Royal Victorian Order
Harold
Harold may refer to:
People
* Harold (given name), including a list of persons and fictional characters with the name
* Harold (surname), surname in the English language
* András Arató, known in meme culture as "Hide the Pain Harold"
Arts a ...
English justices of the peace
Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
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