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Richard Boyle | |
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| 1st Earl of Burlington | |
 The Earl of Burlington. | |
| Tenure | 1664–1698 |
| Other titles | 2nd Earl of Cork |
| Known for | English Civil War |
| Born | (1612-10-20)20 October 1612 Youghal, County Cork, Ireland |
| Died | 15 January 1698(1698-01-15) (aged 85) |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Spouse(s) | Lady Elizabeth Clifford |
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| Father | Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork |
| Mother | Catherine Fenton |
Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Burlington, 2nd Earl of Cork (20 October 1612 – 15 January 1698) was an Anglo-Irish nobleman who served as Lord High Treasurer of Ireland and was a Cavalier.
Early life
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He was born at The College in Youghal in the south-east of County Cork, Ireland, as the sixth child and second son of Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork and his second wife, Catherine Fenton, daughter of Sir Geoffrey Fenton.[1] His brother was the chemist Robert Boyle, and his sister was Lady Ranelagh. On 13 August 1624, The Hon. Richard Boyle, Jr., was knighted at his father's house in Youghal by Lord Falkland, the Lord Deputy of Ireland. As the Hon. Sir Richard Boyle, he then went on travels abroad with an annual allowance of £1500.
Civil War
In 1639, the young Sir Richard undertook to raise, arm, and provide 100 horses to attend upon King Charles I of England in his expedition into the North of England against the Scots. For this and other occasions, his father, Lord Cork, supplied him with £5553 sterling. Sir Richard Boyle was returned as Member of Parliament for Appleby in the Long Parliament of 1640, and appointed a member of the Privy Council of England, but was subsequently excluded for his Royalist sympathies after the outbreak of the English Civil War.
He and Lord Inchiquin commanded the forces which defeated the Irish irregular army at the Battle of Liscarroll on 3 September 1642, thereby preserving the Protestant interest in southern Ireland for the remainder of the decade. A cessation of hostilities was concluded with the Irish a year later (15 September 1643). He then applied to the King, in December, for consent to bring his regiment to serve him in England, and landed his men near Chester the following February. He then marched to the King's aid in Dorset, supplying this monarch with large sums of money for his cause.
He fought throughout the Civil War until the final defeat of the Royalist forces. The Commonwealth fined him £1631 sterling and he then went abroad, returning to Ireland at the request of the government, dated 2 January 1651.
Peerages and appointments
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Upon the death of his brother, Lord Boyle of Kinalmeaky, on 2 September 1642, Richard Boyle succeeded as 2nd Viscount Boyle of Kinalmeaky. A year later, he succeeded as the 2nd Earl of Cork upon the death of his father on 15 September 1643. Further, King Charles I created him Baron Clifford of Londesborough in the County of York on 4 November 1644.
Following the Restoration, Richard was appointed a Privy Counsellor and Lord Treasurer of Ireland on 16 November 1660. On 22 February 1660, he was made Custos Rotulorum of County Cork and of Waterford, and on 19 March 1660, he was appointed one of the Commissioners for the settlement of Ireland following the King's declaration to that effect on 30 November 1659. On 25 June 1661, he took his seat above all the peers, as Lord Treasurer, in the Irish House of Lords in the Irish Parliament.
King Charles II of England created him Earl of Burlington on 20 March 1664, and on 13 March 1666, Richard was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Yorkshire.
In 1667, Richard purchased Burlington House in an incomplete state and proceeded to complete its construction. The house was the largest structure on his Burlington Estate and its name was derived from him.
Lord Burlington (as he was usually known for short from 1664 onwards), along with several other noblemen and Bishops of the Church of Ireland, were opposed to the attempts of King James II of England in regard to the restoration of Roman Catholicism and petitioned the King on 17 November 1688 to call a parliament "regular and free in all its circumstances". This petition had a hostile reception from King James. Following the arrival of William of Orange in England, King James removed to Ireland where he called a parliament in 1689, which passed an act of attainder against certain Protestants deemed disloyal to the king,[2] and confiscated their estates, among whom was the Earl of Burlington (who was also Earl of Cork). This was overturned the following year by William of Orange when he ascended the throne.
On 3 March 1691, Richard was appointed to the newly incorporated Society of the Royal Fishery in Ireland.
Family and death
At the age of 22, Richard Boyle married the 21-year-old Lady Elizabeth Clifford, daughter of Henry Clifford, 5th Earl of Cumberland and Lady Frances Cecil, on 5 July 1635 at Skipton Castle. They had six children:
- Charles Boyle, 3rd Viscount Dungarvan (1639–1694).
- Richard Boyle, who died on 3 June 1665 at the Battle of Lowestoft.
- Frances Boyle, who married firstly Colonel Francis Courtenay and secondly Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon.
- Elizabeth Boyle, who married Nicholas Tufton, 3rd Earl of Thanet.
- Mary Anne Boyle, who married Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Sandwich.
- Henrietta Boyle, who married Lawrence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester.
Lord Burlington died on 6 January 1698 and was buried on 3 February 1698 at Londesborough in Yorkshire. He was succeeded by his grandson, Charles Boyle, 2nd Earl of Burlington.
See also
References
- ^ Wilson, Rachel, ed. (2015), "Boyle Family Tree", Elite Women in Ascendancy Ireland, 1690-1745: Imitation and Innovation, Irish Historical Monographs, Boydell & Brewer, p. 167, doi:10.1017/9781782045830.011, ISBN 978-1-78204-583-0, retrieved 3 July 2023
- ^ "Search Names of those Attainted by James II, 1689". Ulster Historical Foundation. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
- Lodge, John, Keeper of the Rolls, & Archdall, Mervyn, A.M., Rector of Slane, County Meath, and Member of the Royal Irish Academy, The Peerage of Ireland, Dublin, 1789, vol. 1, pp. 169–174.
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San Diego Sarah • Link
As the scion of the extensive Boyle family, I recommend a book about his father, Pages 227-230:
Excerpts concerning the family during Diary times:
https://www.archive.org/stream/cu…
"Francis "Frank" Boyle, Viscount Shannon's wife, the 'black Betty' Killigrew ... is better known ... than her husband, for she is remembered not only ... the mother of Frank's children, but also as the brilliant sister of Tom Killigrew ... and the mother of one of Charles II's natural daughters. [Charlotte Jemima Henrietta-Maria Boyle, who married a Howard. Their child, "Stuarta Howard," died unmarried.]
The fortunes of the Royalist elder brother, Richard Boyle, 2nd Earl of Cork, who had been diligently nursing the family fortunes through the Protectorate, were now so far reinstated that he was able to do for Charles II what Richard Boyle the 1st Earl of Cork had done for King Charles.
Richard Boyle, 2nd Earl of Cork, assisted an impecunious Charles II with sums of money; and in recognition of his services he was, in 1663, created Earl of Burlington in the English Peerage.
Presently, the great town house — Burlington House in Piccadilly — was being built, next door to the Lord Chancellor's.^
^ Evelyn's Diary, October 15, 1664. The first house, built by Sir John Denham, to be succeeded by the later house (Cunningham's London),
The families of Cork and Clarendon were further united by the marriage of Chancellor Clarendon's son and Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Burlington's daughter;
and another daughter was to marry Lord Hinchingbrooke, son of Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich, who, as Admiral of the Fleet (with Pepys as his secretary), had brought Charles II back from The Hague.
The prosperous and good-natured Richard Boyle, 2nd Earl of Burlington, treading softly with his compeers in the Matted Gallery at Whitehall, or making one of the group of courtiers about my Lord Duke in his Chamber, was of all the Cork family the most like the 1st Earl of Cork in his ingenuous love of comfort and display. He thoroughly enjoyed his position as head of the family. It is told of him that, sailing down the Thames in some gay barge-load of noble company, he would never forget to raise his hat when he came in sight of Deptford Church. "Have I not reason?" he would say; and he would tell how there, in Deptford Church, little Hodge, the first-born, lay buried, and how by this child's death, so many years before, he, Richard Boyle, the second son, had come to be the 2nd Earl of Cork.
Katharine Boyle Jones, Lady Ranelagh, back from Ireland, had reservations about the luxurious living at "my brother Cork's."
"Alas!" she wrote to Robert Boyle, not long before the Restoration, "the Entertainment of Lords, Ladies, and Reasonable Creatures are yet several things, to the great grief of your K. R." ^
^ Birch's Ed. Works^ vol. vi.
San Diego Sarah • Link
Part 2
But the Earl and his Countess had always been popular people.
After the Restoration, when their daughter Lady Anne Boyle married young Edward Montagu, Lord Hinchingbrooke, the Earl of Sandwich's son, Lady Sandwich's gratification in this alliance knew no bounds:
"They are very good condition, wise and chearfull people," she wrote just after the wedding. "She" (the bride) "hath a very fine free kind way of writing so have they all, something Mr. Boiles styll." ^
^ 'Life of Edward Mountagu, K.G., First Earl of Sandwich, by F. R. Harris, vol. ii. p. 179.
... The fifth daughter married Laurence Hyde, son of the Earl of Clarendon;
and the third daughter became Lady Thanet, the “… very fine-speaking lady, and a good woman," says Pepys; "but old and not handsome, but a brave woman."
And many pages are devoted to their youngest brother, Robert Boyle FRS.
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PART 3
And of course I forgot to mention another brother, Roger Boyle, Baron Broghill and Earl of Orrery
https://www.pepysdiary.com/encycl…
More about sister Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh (1615–1691) ... there are lots of serious sites about her, but I like this podcast about her relationship with brother Robert. She was a friend of Milton's, amongst other things.
https://www.sciencehistory.org/di…
Another sister who died was Lettuce, who had the misfortune of being married to Gen. George, Lord Goring. He treated her as badly as everyone else, and she died during the Civil Wars, while he cost her father a fortune to repeatedly bail him out.
A wonderful family, split on both sides of the Civil Wars, but they still clearly loved one another.