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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.
Ar Hyd y Nos" (English: All Through the Night) is a Welsh song sung to a tune that was first recorded in Edward Jones' Musical and Poetical Relics of the Welsh Bards (1784). 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 ...
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.
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Sir Harold Boulton: 1878: songwriter "Skye Boat Song" [11]: 4 John Farmer: 1885: Director of Music: organist, composer and keyboardist [12] Ernest Walker: 1887: composer: Honorary Fellow [11]: 22 Donald Tovey: 1895: composer: Essays in Musical Analysis [11]: 43 F. S. Kelly: 1900: composer: Olympic gold medallist in rowing [13]: 62 Victor Hely ...