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BOYD, ROBERT JOHN, son of Robert Boyd MD, Bolton Row, Mayfair, London; b. 24 Oct 1855; adm. 23 Sep 1869; left Aug 1873; St. Thomas’s Hospital and Edinburgh Univ.; LM Edinburgh 1880; LRCP (Ed), LRCS (Ed) 1880; served as surgeon in Turco-Persian war 1876, Russian-Turkish war 1877-8, Zulu war 1879; d. at Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 15 May 1897.

BOYD, THOMAS; b.; adm.; QS 1703.

BOYD-CARPENTER, HENRY JOHN, eldest son of Right Rev. William Boyd-Carpenter KCVO DD, Bishop of Ripon, subsequently Canon of Westminster, and his first wife Harriet Charlotte, dau. of Rev. John Witherington Peers, Vicar of Tetsworth, Oxfordshire; b. 5 Jul 1865; adm. from St. Paul’s Sch. 26 Jan 1882; left Dec 1883; King’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. 6 Oct 1884, matr. Mich. 1884; BA 1887; MA 1892; President, Cambridge Union 1886; adm. Inner Temple 25 Jun 1886, called to bar 11 May 1892; one of HM Inspectors of Schools 1898-1902; Inspector-Gen., Ministry of Public Instruction, Egypt, 1902-20; m. 16 Dec 1902 Ethel MBE, younger dau. of Sir Francis Ley, Bart.; d. 1 Jun 1923.

BOYER, FRANCIS; b.; adm. (aged 12) Jun 1728; in school list 1731. [Probably Francis Bowyear, son of Francis Bowyear and Mary Petre, bapt. Lincoln’s Inn Chapel 2 May 1716 (IGI)] [Perhaps Francis Bowyear, Entering Clerk, Registrar in Chancery (Chamberlayne 1748), subsequently Registrar in Chancery, d. 5 Feb 1780] [Father Sworn Clerk, Six Clerks’ Office]

BOYER, WILLIAM; b.; adm. (aged 11) Jun 1728; in school list 1731. [Probably William Bowyear, brother of last, bapt. Lincoln’s Inn Chapel 31 Mar 1717] [Perhaps William Bowyear, Registrar in Chancery (Chamberlayne 1748), d. 10 Jun 1767 (will proved PCC 25 Jun 1767, as of Bloomsbury Square, Middlesex)]

BOYES, THOMAS; b.; adm. (aged 10) Jun 1720; left 1721.

BOYLE, CHARLES, VISCOUNT DUNGARVAN, elder son of John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork and Orrery (qv), and his first wife; b. 27 Jan 1729; adm. Apr 1738 (Taylor's); his progress at school is frequently mentioned in the Orrery Papers, 1903, i, 244-5, seq.; in school list 1744; St. Mary Hall, Oxford, matr. 23 May 1745; MP (I) Co. Cork from 1756; m. 18 May 1753 Susanna, dau. of Henry Hoare (under school list 1715, qv); d. 16 Sep 1759.

BOYLE, HAMILTON, 6TH EARL OF CORK AND ORRERY (I), younger son of John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork and Orrery (qv), and his first wife; b. 3 Feb 1729/30; adm. Jul 1741; KS (Capt. ) 1744; Capt. of the School 1747; played the part of Ignoramus in the play of 1747 with great success (The Orrery Papers, 1903, ii, 9, 11, 13); elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1748, matr. 14 Jun 1748, Westminster Student 23 Dec 1748 - Dec 1762, Faculty Student from 10 Dec 1762; BCL 15 May 1755; DCL 6 Jul 1763; High Steward, Oxford Univ., from 1762; adm. Inner Temple 19 Nov 1748; MP (I) Charleville 1759-60; MP Warwick 1761 - 23 Nov 1762; succ. his father as 6th Earl of Cork and Orrery 23 Nov 1762; d. unm. 17 Jan 1764.

BOYLE, HENRY, 1ST EARL OF SHANNON (I), second son of Lieut. -Col. Hon. Henry Boyle, and Lady Mary O’Brien, d. of Murrough O’Brien, 1st Earl of Inchiquin (I); b.; adm.; QS 1702; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 5 Mar 1704/5, aged 18; of Castle Martyr, co. Cork; MP (I) Midleton 1707-13, Kilmallock 1713-4, co. Cork 1715-56; successfully resisted the attempt of the government in 1729 to obtain a vote for a continuation of supplies to the Crown for twenty-one years; Privy Councillor (I) 13 Apr 1733; Chancellor of the Exchequer (I) 19 Nov 1733 - Nov 1735, 1739-54, 1755-6; opposed the government proposal for appropriating the Irish surplus, 1753; Speaker of the Irish House of Commons 4 Oct 1733 - 31 Mar 1756; LLD Trinity Coll. Dublin 1735; the parliamentary leader of the Whig party in Ireland; styled by Walpole “the King of the Irish Commons”; acted no less than fifteen times as a Lord Justice in the absence of the Lord Lieutenant; on resigning the Speakership he was granted a government pension and created Earl of Shannon (I) 7 Apr 1756; m. 1st, 1715, Catherine, dau. of Chidley Coote, Kilmallock, co. Limerick; m. 2nd, Sep 1726 Lady Henrietta Boyle, dau. of Charles Boyle, 3rd Earl of Cork (I) and 2nd Earl of Burlington; d. at Dublin 28 Dec 1764. DNB.

BOYLE, HENRY, 1ST BARON CARLETON, third son of Charles Boyle, Viscount Dungarvan, and his first wife Lady Jane Seymour, dau. of William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset; b.; at school under Busby; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. nob. 9 Nov 1692, matr. 1692; MA 1693; MP Tamworth 8 May 1689 - Feb 1690, Cambridge Univ. 21 Nov 1692 - 1705, Westminster 1705-10; a Whig politician; a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury 1 Jun 1699 - Mar 1701; Chancellor of the Exchequer 29 Mar 1701 - Feb 1708; Privy Councillor 27 Mar 1701; Secretary of State, Northern Dept., 13 Feb 1708 - Sep 1710; Lord Treasurer of Ireland 5 May 1704 - Aug 1710; a Commissioner for the Union with Scotland 1706; one of the managers of Sacheverell’s trial, 1710; created Baron Carleton (GB) 10 Oct 1714; Lord President of the Council from 25 Jun 1721; Lord Lieut., Yorkshire West Riding 6 Apr 1704 - 10 Jun 1715; DCL Oxford 6 Jul 1720; a Busby Trustee from 5 Feb 1724/5; the third volume of the Spectator was dedicated to him by Addison; the name of his house in Pall Mall is perpetuated by Carlton House Terrace; d. unm. 14 Mar 1725. DNB.