David Boyle, Lord Boyle

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(26 July 1772 – 4 February 1853) was a British judge.

Life

Boyle was born at Shewalton near Irvine on 26 July 1772, the son of Elizabeth Dunlop, daughter of Professor Alexander Dunlop, and the Honorable Reverend Patrick Boyle of Shewalton (died 1798), son of

John Boyle, 2nd Earl of Glasgow John Boyle, 2nd Earl of Glasgow (April 1688 – 22 May 1740) was a Scottish nobleman. Origins Boyle was the eldest son and heir of David Boyle, 1st Earl of Glasgow, by Margaret, daughter of the Hon. Patrick Lindsay (second son of John Lindsay, 17 ...

. His father had inherited the Shewalton estate through his uncle, Patrick Boyle, Lord Shewalton, who had never married. He studied law at the

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(1787) and then at the

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(1789). He became an

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in 1793 and rose to be

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. He was based at 41 George Street in

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. In 1798 he inherited the Shewalton estate on his father's death. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for

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from 1807 to 1811 and served as

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during that period. In 1811 he was appointed a

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, with the judicial title Lord Boyle. He was

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from 1811 to 1841. He became a

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in 1820 and

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from 1841 to 1852. From 1815 to 1817 he served as Rector of the University of Glasgow. In 1833 his address was listed as 28

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at the west end of Edinburgh's

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Family

Boyle married firstly, in 1804, Elizabeth Montgomerie (died April 1822), daughter of Alexander Montgomerie, and niece of Hugh Montgomerie, 12th Earl of Eglinton. They had several children, including Patrick Boyle, father of

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; and Alexander Boyle, a

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in the

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. Boyle married secondly, in 1827, Catherine Campbell Smythe, daughter of David Smythe, Lord Methven. Their children included George David Boyle, who became

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. Boyle died on 4 February 1853, aged 80. His second wife died in December 1880. His daughter, Helen, married Charles Dalrymple Fergusson, Baronet of Kilkerran. The central pavilion on the south side of Charlotte Square

The central pavilion on the south side of Charlotte Square

Memberships

*Highland Society (1804) *Fellow of the

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(1820)

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