BOYLE, JOHN, 5TH EARL OF CORK AND ORRERY (I), only son of Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery (I) KP, Lieut. -Gen. in the Army, and Lady Elizabeth Cecil, dau. of John Cecil, 5th Earl of Exeter; b. 18 Jan 1706/7; adm. Nov 1717; in under school list 1719; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 16 Aug 1723; MA from Univ. Coll. 1743; succ. father as 5th Earl of Orrery (I) 28 Aug 1731; FRS 23 Oct 1746; succ. his cousin as 5th Earl of Cork (I) 4 Dec 1753; living in Italy for financial reasons 1754-5; a friend of Swift, Pope and Johnson; contributor to The World and The Connoisseur; author, Remarks on the life and writings of Jonathan Swift, 1751, and other works; m. 1st, 9 May 1728 Lady Henrietta Hamilton, youngest dau. of George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney (S) PC KT, Field Marshal in the Army; m. 2nd, 30 Jun 1738 Margaret, dau. of John Hamilton, Caledon, co. Tyrone; d. 23 Nov 1762. DNB.
BOYLE, MORDAUNT CHARLES, eldest son of Charles John Boyle, Diplomatic Service, and Zacyntha, second dau. of Major-Gen. Sir Lorenzo Moore KCH CB; b. 21 Jun 1850; adm. 14 Apr 1862; left Christmas 1864; Ensign, 60th Foot, 23 Sep 1871; Lieut., 28 Oct 1871; Adjutant, 13 Nov 1875 - 14 Sep 1877; Capt., King’s Royal Rifle Corps, 10 Nov 1880; Maj., 14 Mar 1883; served in South African war 1881 and on Egyptian expedition 1882; m. 12 Jul 1877 his cousin Charlotte Jane, youngest dau. of Lieut. -Col. Hon. Robert Edward Boyle MP; d. while on active service at Kurol, Upper Egypt, 5 May 1885.
Third earl of Burlington and fourth earl of Cork. Boyle designed the new College dormitory building in 1722.
Boyle, Walter Julian Algernon, son of Hon. Walter John Harry Boyle CBE, Sen. Official Receiver in Bankruptcy, and Ethel Horatia, d. of Capt. Edward Rowe Fisher Rowe DL, 4th Dragoon Guards, of Thorncombe, Surrey; b. 26 Nov. 1918; adm. Sept. 1932 (KS); left July 1937; elected to Ch. Ch. Oxf., but did not matriculate; RNVR 1939-5 (Lieut.); dir. Fell & Briant Ltd 1972-; m. 30 July 1941 Anita Diana, d. of W. H. Greenhow of Cobham, Surrey; d. 25 Nov. 1994
BOYLE, WILLIAM; b.; adm.; QS; elected head to Trin. Coll. Camb. 1590, adm. scholar 1591, matr. c. 1591.
BOYS, ---; b.; a boarder; left 1656 (school list 1656, first quarter).
BOYS, ---; b.; in school lists 1656; appears as Boyse in Busby’s account book under 6 Aug 1660.
Boys, Anthony Vernon, son of Ernest John Egerton Boys, civil engineer, and Janet Myfanwy, sister of Percy Thoresby-Jones (qv); b. 19 June 1922; adm. Apr. 1936 (H); left Apr. 1937; 2nd Lieut. Indian Army 1942, transf. to RE 1945 (Lieut.); m. Dorothea Maud, d. of Rev. George Owen Cheese, Vicar of Wastlake, Cumbria; d. in Kenya 12 Jan. 1959.
BOYS, DANIEL, son of Thomas Boys, Great St. Anne Lane, Westminster, goldwire drawer, and Jane, dau. of Thomas James, St. John the Evangelist, Westminster, goldwire drawer; b. 1 Sep 1777; adm. 7 Jul 1788; BB; Min. Can. 1793; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. 6 Apr 1795, Bishop Williams scholar 6 Nov 1798, matr. Mich. 1795; BA 1799; MA 1810; ordained deacon 25 Jan 1803, priest 25 Mar 1803 (both Bath & Wells, lit. dim. from Canterbury); Curate of Meopham, Kent, 1803; Vicar of Benenden, Kent, from 29 Nov 1805; Vicar of Brookland, Kent, from 15 Dec 1809; Chaplain to George, 3rd Earl of Tyrconnel, 1809; m. 9 Nov 1807 Sarah Rider, youngest dau. of William Barrington Richardson, Bermondsey, Surrey; d. 11 Sep 1857.