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Boyle, John, Earl of Cork and Orrery, 1707-1762
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1707-1762
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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.
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Boyle, John, Earl of Cork and Orrery, 1707-1762
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.