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Sir Harry Lauder Day
"🎶 Roamin' in the gloamin' on the bonnie banks o' Clyde,
Roamin' in the gloamin' wi' ma lassie by ma side,
When the sun has gone to rest, that's the time that I like best,
O, it's lovely roamin' in the gloamin'!"
~ Roamin' in the Gloamin', Harry Lauder, 1911
Sir Harry Lauder (1870–1950) was a celebrated Scottish singer, comedian, songwriter, and vaudeville performer who became one of the world's most popular entertainers. An international ambassador for Scottish culture, he also raised millions for the war effort during the First World War.
This tartan was created to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Sir Harry Lauder's birth in 1870, celebrating both his remarkable career in entertainment and his tireless fundraising efforts during WWI. Lauder first found success entertaining fellow miners in Hamilton, Lanarkshire, before leaving the pits to perform full-time. His breakthrough came as the star of the Howard & Wyndham pantomimes at Glasgow's Theatre Royal, where he wrote the enduring favorite I Love a Lassie. From there, he secured major theatrical contracts and became one of the world's most popular entertainers during a career spanning 42 years.
Lauder toured extensively throughout the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, taking his distinctive blend of humor, music, and Scottish pride to audiences around the globe. He wrote most of his own songs, including Roamin' in the Gloamin', I Love a Lassie, A Wee Deoch-an-Doris, and The End of the Road, which remains the club anthem of Birmingham City Football Club.
His trademark crooked walking stick, or cromach, became so iconic that the twisted ornamental cultivar of common hazel (Corylus avellana 'Contorta') is still popularly known as Harry Lauder's Walking Stick. Dressed in full Highland regalia, Lauder left an enduring image of Scotland that became recognized around the world. 💙 💚 ❤️ 🤍 🖤 🎭 🎶
Sir Henry Lauder (4 August 1870 – 26 February 1950) was a Scottish singer and comedian popular in both music hall and vaudeville theatre traditions; he achieved international success.
He was described by Sir Winston Churchill as "Scotland's greatest ever ambassador" who "... by his inspiring songs and valiant life, rendered measureless service to the Scottish race and to the British Empire."
He became a familiar worldwide figure promoting images like the kilt and the cromach (walking stick) to huge acclaim, especially in America. Among his most popular songs were "Roamin' in the Gloamin", "A Wee Deoch-an-Doris", "The End of the Road" and, a particularly big hit for him, "I Love a Lassie".
By 1911 Lauder had become the highest-paid performer in the world, and was the first British artist to sell a million records! He raised vast amounts of money for the war effort during the First World War, for which he was knighted in 1919.
On 28 July 1987, the Lord Provost of Edinburgh hosted a luncheon at the Edinburgh City Chambers to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of Lauder receiving the Freedom of the City.
On 4 August 2001 Gregory Lauder-Frost opened the Sir Harry Lauder Memorial Garden at Portobello Town Hall. BBC2 Scotland broadcast a documentary, Something About Harry, on 30 November 2005. On 29 September 2007, Lauder-Frost rededicated the Burslem Golf Course & Club at Stoke-on-Trent, which had been formally opened exactly a century before by Harry Lauder.
For more on how Harry Lauder's life and travels, click the portrait!