The Earl of Orrery | |
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Privy Council of England | |
In office 26 May 1661 – 21 April 1679 [a] | |
Lord Lieutenant of Clare | |
In office 1661–1672 | |
Lord President of Munster | |
In office 1661 – 31 July 1672 [b] | |
Constable, Limerick Castle | |
In office 1661 – October 1679 † | |
Member of Parliament for Arundel | |
In office 1660–1679 | |
President of the Council in Scotland | |
In office March 1655 – March 1656 | |
Member of the Protectorate Parliament for County Cork | |
In office 1654 – 10 December 1657 | |
Personal details | |
Born | 25 April 1621 Lismore Castle, County Waterford |
Died | 16 October 1679 Castlemartyr, County Cork | (aged 58)
Spouse | Margaret Howard (1641 to his death) |
Relations | Robert Boyle |
Children | Margaret (1644–1683); Roger (1646–1682); Henry (1648–1693); Barbara; |
Parent(s) | Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork; Catherine Fenton Boyle |
Education | Trinity College, Dublin |
Military service | |
Years of service | 1641 to 1651 |
Battles/wars | |
Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery,[c] 25 April 1621 to 16 October 1679, was an Anglo-Irish soldier and politician. A younger son of the Earl of Cork, the largest landowner in Munster, like many Irish Protestants he supported the Dublin Castle administration during the Irish Confederate Wars, a related conflict of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
Boyle was noted for his anti-Catholicism, and consistently opposed concessions to Irish Catholics. A skilled politician, he believed maintaining the Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland required support from the ruling government in London, whatever its composition. As a result, he held senior positions under the Commonwealth and Charles II, following the 1660 Stuart Restoration.
A noted writer on 17th-century warfare, Boyle helped design Charles Fort outside Kinsale. He also produced a number of plays and poems, which were well regarded by contemporaries but have since faded into obscurity.
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