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 David Boyle, 1st Earl of Glasgow (c. 1666 – 31 October 1733) was a Scottish politician and peer. He was the last Treasurer-depute before the Union with England. Early life David Boyle was born circa 1666 at Kelburn Castle, Fairlie, in No ...

, by Margaret, daughter of the Hon. Patrick Lindsay (second son of

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). The Boyles were an ancient family, whose estates centred on Kelburn in North

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Career

Boyle was born in April 1688 and succeeded to the peerage on 31 October 1733. By disposition dated 31 March 1721 he acquired the lands of Ballikewin in the island of Cumbrae from his kinsman, James Boyle. Sir James Balfour Paul, ''The Scots Peerage'', Volume IV: p. 206. He died at Kelburn on 22 May 1740 and was buried at

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Church on 29 May 1740.

Family

In 1707,Contract dated 11 February 1707. Boyle married Helenor, third daughter of William Morrison of

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, in the county of county Haddington. She died at Edinburgh on 7 July 1767. Their children included: * David Boyle (d. 1710) * William Boyle (1713–1715) * John Boyle (1714–1775), who succeeded his father as the 3rd Earl of Glasgow. * Charles Boyle (b. 1715), who died young * Patrick Boyle of Shewalton (1717–1798), who married first Agnes Mure, daughter of William Mure of Caldwell, and secondly Elizabeth Dunlop, daughter of Alexander Dunlop, a professor of Greek at the

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. They were the parents of David Boyle, Lord Boyle. * David Boyle (b. 1717), who died young * Janet Boyle (1711–1770) * Margaret Boyle (1712–1772) * Jean Boyle (d. 1756) * Helen Boyle (d. 1794), who married Sir James Douglas, 1st Baronet * Marion Boyle (d. 1757) * Catharine Boyle, who married Dr. James MacNeill of Neilhall on 10 December 1770.

References

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