Harold Boulton

Sir Harold Edwin Boulton, 2nd Baronet, CVO, CBE, JP (1859 – 1 June 1935), 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.