Francis Boyle, 1st Viscount Shannon (1623–1699) was a

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and held the office of Governor of County Cork. He was the sixth son of

Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork (13 October 1566 – 15 September 1643), also known as 'the Great Earl of Cork', was an English politician who served as Lord Treasurer of the Kingdom of Ireland. Lord Cork was an important figure in the continu ...

by his second wife, Catherine Fenton. Upon his father's death in 1643, he inherited Annery House near

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, Devon, as well as the manor of

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and Halberton Manor. For his military services in support of King Charles II he was created Viscount Shannon in 1660. In 1672 he was appointed Governor of the City and County of Cork. On 24 October 1638 at the King's Chapel, Whitehall, he married Elizabeth Killigrew, sister of the dramatist Thomas Killigrew, daughter of Sir

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and Mary Woodhouse.Lawrence Stone, ''Crisis of the Aristocracy'' (Oxford, 1965), p. 659. They had two sons and a daughter Elizabeth, who married

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. Subsequently, Elizabeth Killigrew had a daughter by Charles II, Charlotte Jemima FitzRoy (c.1650–1684). Elizabeth died in 1681. The Viscount died in 1699 and was buried 19 April 1699 at St Mary's Collegiate Church,

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, Cork. He was succeeded by

Richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount Shannon Field Marshal Richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount Shannon, PC (1675 – 20 December 1740) was a British army officer and politician. After serving as a junior officer at the Battle of the Boyne during the Williamite War in Ireland and at the Battle of L ...

, the eldest son of his eldest son, his eldest son having predeceased him.

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