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Harold Boulton in 1918. Sir Harold Edwin Boulton, 2nd Baronet, CVO, CBE, JP (7 August 1859 [1] – 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".
Sir Harold Boulton, 2nd Baronet composed the new lyrics to Ross's song which had been heard by Anne Campbell MacLeod in the 1870s, and the line "Over the Sea to Skye" is now a cornerstone of the tourism industry on the Isle of Skye. Alternative lyrics to the tune were written by Robert Louis Stevenson, probably in 1885.
The most commonly sung Welsh lyrics were written by John Ceiriog Hughes (1832-1887), and have been translated into several languages, including English (most famously by Harold Boulton (1859–1935) [1]) and Breton. One of the earliest English versions, to different Welsh lyrics by one John Jones, was by Thomas Oliphant in 1862. [2]
The Boulton Baronetcy, of Copped Hall, Totteridge, in the County of Hertford, [1] was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom for Samuel Bagster Boulton, the founder and chairman of the London Labour Conciliation Board. The title became either extinct or dormant on the death of his great-grandson, the fourth Baronet, in 1996.
It was in the late 1800s, during Harold Mahony's time as head of the household, that Harold Boulton, best known for writing the lyrics of the Skye Boat Song, came to visit Dromore, and it is then that he is thought to have written the words to the popular song "The Castle of Dromore," published in 1892 in English and later translated into Irish ...
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The "Mingulay Boat Song" is a song written by Sir Hugh S. Roberton (1874–1952) in the 1930s.The melody is described in Roberton's Songs of the Isles as a traditional Gaelic tune, probably titled "Lochaber". [1]