Robert John Lascelles Boyle, 11th Earl of Cork and 11th Earl of Orrery (8 November 1864 – 13 October 1934), known as Hon. Robert Boyle until 1925, was a British peer. The second son of

Richard Boyle, 9th Earl of Cork Richard Edmund St Lawrence Boyle, 9th Earl of Cork and Orrery KP, PC (19 April 1829 – 22 June 1904), styled Viscount Dungarvan between 1834 and 1856, was a British courtier and Liberal politician. In a ministerial career spanning between ...

and Lady Emily de Burgh, he was educated at

Charterhouse School (God having given, I gave) , established = , closed = , type = Public school Independent day and boarding school , religion = Church of England , president ...

. Boyle was commissioned a lieutenant in the 4th (militia) battalion of the

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on 15 April 1882, and resigned his commission on 12 February 1887. From 1888, he was honorary attaché at Madrid. He married Josephine Catherine Hale (d. 2 April 1953), daughter of a California merchant, on 30 April 1890; they had no children. During the

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, he was the honorary secretary of the British Club for Belgian Soldiers, an organization to provide recreation and refreshment for Belgian soldiers on furlough from the front lines. As a result, he was made an officer in the Belgian Order of the Crown. He was also made a knight of the

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for war services. In 1925, he succeeded his brother

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Earl of Cork Earl of Cork is a title in the Peerage of Ireland, held in conjunction with the Earldom of Orrery since 1753. It was created in 1620 for Richard Boyle, 1st Baron Boyle. He had already been created Lord Boyle, Baron of Youghal, in the County ...

and

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. He died in 1934 and was succeeded by his second cousin

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8th 8 (eight) is the natural number following 7 and preceding 9. In mathematics 8 is: * a composite number, its proper divisors being , , and . It is twice 4 or four times 2. * a power of two, being 2 (two cubed), and is the first number of t ...