John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork
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| Born | 13 January 1707 |
| Died | 16 November 1762 (aged 55) |
| Children | Charles, Hamilton, and Edmund |
| Parent | Charles Boyle |
John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork and 5th Earl of Orrery,
.The only son of Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery, and his wife Lady Elizabeth Cecil (1687–1708), daughter of John Cecil, 5th Earl of Exeter. He was born at Westminster and attended Christ Church, Oxford. In 1743, he was one of several leading Tories who communicated with the French government through Francis Sempill in order to elicit French support for an invasion to restore the Stuart line. He published a translation of the letters of Pliny the Younger in 1751, Remarks on the Life and Writings of Jonathan Swift in the same year, and the Memoirs of Robert Carey, 1st Earl of Monmouth. His Letters from Italy was published in 1773.[1]
Family
He was married twice, first to Henrietta, daughter of
References
- ^ Boyle, John (1773). Duncombe, John (ed.). Letters from Italy, in the years 1754 and 1755. Benjamin White.
- ^ Livingstone, N. (2015). The Mistresses of Cliveden. New York: Ballantine Books, p. 148.
- . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
External links
- John Boyle, Fifth Earl of Orrery, Fifth Earl of Cork at the Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive (ECPA)
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