Robert Edward Boyle (March 1809 – 3 September 1854) was a British soldier and

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politician. Boyle was the fourth son of

Edmund Boyle, 8th Earl of Cork General Edmund Boyle, 8th Earl of Cork and 8th Earl of Orrery KP (21 October 1767 – 29 June 1856), styled Viscount Dungarvan from 1768 to 1798, was an Irish soldier and peer. Early life Boyle was the eldest surviving son of Edmund Boyle, 7th E ...

, and his wife Isabella Henrietta (née Poyntz). He served with the

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and achieved the rank of

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. At the 1847 general election he was elected unopposed as the

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(MP) for

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. Boyle was returned unopposed in

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, but that election was later voided after an electoral petition, because Boyle's position as Secretary of the

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election was held to be an office of profit under the crown. He was re-elected unopposed at the resulting by-election in March 1853, and held his seat in the

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until his death the following year, aged 45. Serving in the

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, Boyle died of fever in

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, and was

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. He married Georgiana, daughter of

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, in 1844. They had one son and two daughters. Boyle died in September 1854, aged 45, and was succeeded as Member of Parliament for Frome by his nephew Viscount Dungarvan. His wife survived him by almost 60 years and died in 1911.

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