Harold Boulton
Sir Harold Edwin Boulton, 2nd Baronet, , son of Sir Samuel Bagster Boulton, 1st Baronet of Copped Hall, 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.
A portrait by Bassano is in the National Portrait Gallery collection.
He married, first, Adelaide Lucy Davidson, daughter of Duncan Davidson of Tulloch Castle, and had three children, Louise Kythé Veronica Boulton, Christian Harold Ernest Boulton and Denis Duncan Harold Owen Boulton, 3rd Baronet Boulton, known as "Harold", 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.
