John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork and Orrery by Isaac Seeman

John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork and 5th Earl of Orrery, FRS (13 January 1707 – 16 November 1762) was a writer and a friend of

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and

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. The only son of

Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery KT PC FRS (28 July 1674 – 28 August 1731) was an English nobleman, statesman and patron of the sciences. Early life The second son of Roger Boyle, 2nd Earl of Orrery, and his wife Lady Mary Sackville (16 ...

, and his wife Lady Elizabeth Cecil (1687–1708), daughter of John Cecil, 5th Earl of Exeter. He was born at

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and attended

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. In 1743, he was one of several leading Tories who communicated with the French government through

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in order to illicit French support for an invasion to restore the Stuart line. He published a translation of the letters of

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in 1751, ''Remarks on the Life and Writings of Jonathan Swift'' in the same year, and the ''Memoirs of

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''. His ''Letters from Italy'' was published in 1773.

Family

He was married twice, first to Henrietta, daughter of George Hamilton, Earl of Orkney and his wife Elizabeth Hamilton, née Villiers.Livingstone, N. (2015). The Mistresses of Cliveden. New York: Ballantine Books, p. 148. He was succeeded as Earl of Cork by his son

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, who died in 1764 and passed the earldom to John's next son,

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. Elizabeth, one of his daughters by his first wife, married

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, and one of their children was Sir Richard Worsley, 7th Baronet. His second wife was Margaret Hamilton, daughter of John Hamilton of Caledon and Lucy Dopping. She owned considerable estates in Ulster.

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