Charles Boyle, Viscount Dungarvan (27 January 1729 – 16 September 1759) was an

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politician. Boyle was the eldest son of

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and his first wife, Henrietta, daughter of

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. He was the Member of Parliament for

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in the

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between 1756 and his death in 1759.E. M. Johnston-Liik
''MPs in Dublin: Companion to History of the Irish Parliament, 1692-1800''
(Ulster Historical Foundation, 2006), p.72 (Retrieved 19 January 2023). In 1753 he married Susanna Hoare, the daughter of

Henry Hoare Henry Hoare II (1705–1785), known as Henry the Magnificent, was an English banker and garden owner-designer. Family Henry's grandfather, Richard Hoare, was a goldsmith-banker and Lord Mayor of London. His father, Henry Hoare I, bought th ...

. They had one child, Henrietta Boyle. As Boyle predeceased his father, the earldom was inherited by Boyle's younger brother, Hamilton Boyle.

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1729 births 1759 deaths 18th-century Anglo-Irish people

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