Henry Boyle, 1st Baron Carleton, (12 July 1669 – 31 March 1725) was an

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Whig politician who sat in the

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from 1692 to 1695 and in the

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and

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between 1689 and 1710. He served as Chancellor of the Exchequer and Secretary of State, and after he was raised to the peerage as Baron Carleton, served as Lord President of the council.

Biography

Boyle was the son of

Charles Boyle, 3rd Viscount Dungarvan Charles Boyle, Viscount Dungarvan, 3rd Baron Clifford, FRS ( bapt. 12 December 1639 – 12 October 1694), was an English peer and politician. He was a member of a famous Anglo-Irish aristocratic family. Early life Charles Boyle was the son ...

, and his first wife Lady Jane Seymour, daughter of William Seymour. He was educated at

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and travelled abroad from 1685 to 1688, attending

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in 1685. He entered the army under the auspices of his uncle, the

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politician Lord Rochester. However, Boyle himself became a Whig, and in 1688 deserted the army of James II in favour of the

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. In 1689, he was elected

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for Tamworth, but was defeated the next year. He spent the next two years in

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managing the family estates and represented

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in the

in 1692. Also in 1692, he was returned as MP for

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at a by election on 21 November 1692, having been admitted at

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on 9 November, and was awarded MA in 1693. He became a prominent spokesman of the "country" opposition, but in 1697 he switched to the court party. Here he advanced quickly, becoming a

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in 1699 and Chancellor of the Exchequer of England in 1701. Boyle picked up other offices during his career, becoming Lord Lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire and Lord Treasurer of Ireland in 1704, and was elected member for

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at the 1705 English general election. With the departure of

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and his followers from the government, Boyle became Secretary of State for the Northern Department and Lord Treasurer Godolphin's principal lieutenant in the Commons. His and Godolphin's dominance in the ministry was increasingly overshadowed by the power of the

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of Whig aristocrats, however, and in 1710 he retired from office and withdrew from politics with the arrival of Harley's new

ministry.

Baron Carleton

With the

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in 1714, Boyle was raised to the

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as Baron Carleton, and became Lord President in 1721, an office in which he continued until his death in 1725. Carlton Way, a road in north

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that follows the path of the Roman

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, and the public house The Carlton Arms on the same road, are named after him.

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