# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sir-harold-boulton-2nd-baronet
# Generated: 2026-08-16T04:38:02.589Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sir-harold-boulton-2nd-baronet"
name: "Sir Harold Boulton, 2nd Baronet"
slug: "sir-harold-boulton-2nd-baronet"
description: "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."
tagline: "British songwriter (1859–1935)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Harold_Edwin_Boulton%2C_2nd_Baronet%2C_1918.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1859-08-07"
deathDate: "1935-06-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.01
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.202736
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Boulton"
    title: "Harold Boulton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Boulton"
    title: "Harold Boulton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Harold_Boulton"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/6ebbf220-baff-4c3b-8bac-925d4eb9901a"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/474356"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7527034"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump