John Boyle
5th Earl of Cork and Orrery ^{[1, 2]}

1707 - 1762  (55 years)

• Birth	13 Jan 1707	Glasshouse Str., London
  Christening	13 Jan 1707	St.James's, Westminster
  Gender	Male
  Lived In	Ireland
  Notable	*
  Death	23 Nov 1762	Marston House, Frome
  Burial	St.John's Church, Frome, Somerset
  Person ID	I00005559	Leo
  Last Modified	16 Oct 2003

  
  

  Father	Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery ,   b. 28 Jul 1674, Little Chelsea d. 28 Aug 1731, London, Downing Str. (Age 57 years)
  Mother	Lady Elizabeth Cecil,   b. 1687   d. 12 Jun 1708, London, Glasshouse Str. (Age 21 years)
  Marriage	30 Mar 1706	Burghley House, Stamford
  Family ID	F00003164	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Lady Henrietta Hamilton   d. 22 Aug 1732, Cork
  Marriage	9 May 1728	Albemarle Street
  Children	+ 1. Charles Boyle, Viscount Dungarvan ,   b. 27 Jan 1729, Leicester's Inn Field d. 16 Sep 1759, Bath (Age 30 years)   2. Hamilton Boyle, 6th Earl of Cork and Orrery ,   b. 3 Feb 1730   d. 17 Jan 1764 (Age 33 years) + 3. Lady Elizabeth Boyle,   b. 7 May 1731   d. 16 Jan 1800 (Age 68 years)
  Family ID	F00003166	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 Oct 2003

  
  

  Family 2	Margaret Hamilton,   b. 24 Jul 1710   d. 24 May 1758, Great Marlborough Str., Midx. (Age 47 years)
  Marriage	30 Jun 1738	Dublin
  Children	+ 1. Edmund Boyle, 7th Earl of Cork and Orrery ,   b. 21 Nov 1742, Marston d. 6 Oct 1798, Bath (Age 55 years) + 2. Lady Lucy Boyle,   b. 27 May 1744   d. 18 Mar 1792, Tunbridge Wells (Age 47 years)   3. Lady Catherine Agnes Boyle
  Family ID	F00003165	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 Oct 2003

  
  

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• Notes

  BIOGRAPHY He went to University College, Oxford on 16 August 1723 and received his MA on 25 August 1743. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society on 23 October 1746. Politically he was a Tory and took part in some parliamentary debates, chiefly in opposition to Walpole. When his father died in 1731, he left his library to Christ Church, giving as his reason his son's 'want of taste for literature'. According to Johnson, the real reason was that Boyle would not allow his wife to associate with his father's mistress. However, this seems to have stimulated him to disprove the charge and he developed a reputation as a literary man who was a friend of Swift, on whose writings he published a dissertation 'Remarks'. This was written in a stilted and affected style and the malice that he showed in it made the book the subject of a bitter attack in 1754 by Dr. Patrick Delany.

  
  

• Sources

  [S01352] ~Burke's Peerage and Baronetage 1938 . 653. [S00058] Doubleday, H.A. & Lord Howard de Walden, The Complete Peerage, 1936 . 3:422

  
  

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  		Birth - 13 Jan 1707 - Glasshouse Str., London Christening - 13 Jan 1707 - St.James's, Westminster Lived In - - Ireland Marriage - 9 May 1728 - Albemarle Street Marriage - 30 Jun 1738 - Dublin Death - 23 Nov 1762 - Marston House, Frome Burial - - St.John's Church, Frome, Somerset  = Link to Google Earth
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