John Boyle, 3rd Earl of Glasgow
John Boyle, 3rd Earl of Glasgow (4 November 1714 – 7 March 1775) was a Scottish nobleman.
John Boyle, 2nd Earl of Glasgow
John Boyle, 2nd Earl of Glasgow( April 1688 – 22 May 1740), was a Scottish nobleman.
John J. Boyle (attorney)
John J. Boyle was the United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin.
Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery
Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery KT PC FRS (28 July 1674 – 28 August 1731) was an English nobleman, statesman and patron of the sciences.
The second son of Roger Boyle, 2nd Earl of Orrery, and his wife Lady Mary Sackville (1647–1710), daughter of Richard Sackville, 5th Earl of Dorset, he was born at Little Chelsea, London.
He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, and soon distinguished himself by his learning and abilities.
Like the first earl, he was an author, soldier and statesman.
He translated Plutarch's life of Lysander, and published an edition of the epistles of Phalaris, which engaged him in the famous controversy with Bentley.
He was a member of the Irish Parliament and sat for Charleville between 1695 and 1699.
He was three times member for the town of Huntingdon; and on the death of his brother, Lionel, 3rd earl, in 1703, he succeeded to the title.
He entered the army, and in 1709 was raised to the rank of major-general, and sworn one of Her Majesty's Privy Council.
He was appointed to the Order of the Thistle and appointed queen's envoy to the states of Brabant and Flanders; and having discharged this trust with ability, he was created an English peer, as Baron Boyle of Marston, in Somerset.
He inherited the estate in 1714.
Boyle became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1706.
In 1713, under the patronage of Boyle, clockmaker George Graham created the first mechanical solar system model that could demonstrate proportional motion of the planets around the Sun.
The device was named the orrery in the Earl's honour.
Charles Boyle received several additional honours in the reign of George I; but having had the misfortune to fall under the suspicion of the government for playing a part in the Jacobite Atterbury Plot, he was committed to the Tower in 1722, where he remained six months, and was then admitted to bail.
On a subsequent inquiry he was discharged.
Boyle wrote a comedy, "As you find it", printed in 1703 and later published together with the plays of the first earl.
In 1728, he was listed as one of the subscribers to the "Cyclopaedia" of Ephraim Chambers.
Boyle died at his house in Westminster in 1731 and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
He bequeathed his personal library and collection of scientific instruments to Christ Church Library; the instruments are now on display in the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford.
His son John, the 5th Earl of Orrery, succeeded to the earldom of Cork on the failure of the elder branch of the Boyle family, as earl of Cork and Orrery.
James Lindsay, 5th Earl of Balcarres
James Lindsay, 5th Earl of Balcarres( 14 November 1691 – 20 February 1768) was a Scottish peer, the son of Colin Lindsay, 3rd Earl of Balcarres and Lady Margaret Campbell, daughter of the Earl of Loudoun.
He became the 5th Earl of Balcarres on 25 July 1736 on the death of his brother Alexander Lindsay, 4th Earl of Balcarres.
Henry Boyle, 5th Earl of Shannon
Henry Bentinck Boyle, 5th Earl of Shannon( 22 November 1833 in London – 8 February 1890 in Castlemartyr) was an Honorary Colonel of the 2nd Brigade, South Irish Division, Royal Artillery.
James Carr-Boyle, 5th Earl of Glasgow
Captain James Carr- Boyle, 5th Earl of Glasgow( 10 April 1792 – 11 March 1869), styled Viscount of Kelburn from 1818 until 1843, was a British naval commander and politician.
John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork
John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork and 5th Earl of Orrery, FRS (13 January 1707 – 16 November 1762) was a writer and a friend of Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope and Samuel Johnson.
The only son of Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery, and his wife Lady Elizabeth Cecil (1687–1708), daughter of John Cecil, 5th Earl of Exeter.
He was born at Westminster and attended Christ Church, Oxford.
He published a translation of the letters of Pliny the Younger in 1751, and "Remarks on the Life and Writings of Jonathan Swift" in the same year, and the "Memoirs of Robert Carey, 1st Earl of Monmouth".
His "Letters from Italy" was published in 1774 by J. Duncombe.
Hamilton Boyle, 6th Earl of Cork
Hamilton Boyle, 6th Earl of Cork and 6th Earl of Orrery( 3 February 1729 – 17 January 1764) was the son of John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork and Lady Henrietta Hamilton.
He inherited the titles of 6th Earl of Cork and Orrery and 3rd Baron Boyle of Marston from his father in 1762.
He served in the Parliament of Great Britain as Member of Parliament( MP) for Warwick between 1751 and 1762, and represented Charleville in the Irish House of Commons between 1759 and 1760.
He was unmarried and was succeeded by his brother.
Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork
Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork( 13 October 1566 – 15 September 1643), also known as the Great Earl of Cork, was an English- born politician who served as Lord Treasurer of the Kingdom of Ireland.
Lord Cork was an important figure in the continuing English colonisation of Ireland( commenced by the Normans) in the 16th and 17th centuries, as he acquired large tracts of land in plantations in Munster in southern Ireland.
Moreover, his sons played an important role in fighting against the Irish Catholic rebellion in the 1640s and 1650s, assisting in the victory of the British and Protestant interest in Ireland.
In addition to being the first Earl of Cork, he was the patriarch of the Boyle family through his many prominent descendants, whose titles included Earl of Orrery( 1660), Earl of Burlington( 1664) and Earl of Shannon( 1756).

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