John Boyle, 3rd Earl of Glasgow (4 November 1714 – 7 March 1775) was a Scottish nobleman.

Origins

Boyle was the third but eldest surviving son and heir 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 ...

, by Helenor Morrison, third daughter of William Morrison of

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, county Haddington. The Boyle family's estates were centred on Kelburn in North

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Career

Lord Glasgow was a captain in the

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, and took part in the

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on 30 April 1745 and the

Battle of Lauffeld The Battle of Lauffeld took place on 2 July 1747, during the War of the Austrian Succession. Fought between the towns of Tongeren in modern Belgium, and the Dutch city of Maastricht, a French army of 80,000 under Marshal Saxe defeated a Pragma ...

on 2 July 1747, being wounded on both occasions. Between 1755 and 1757, he was Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow and between 1764 and 1772, he was

Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland The Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland is the monarch's personal representative to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland (the Kirk), reflecting the Church's role as the national church of Scotla ...

.''The Complete Peerage'', Volume V (ed. Gibbs and Doubleday, London, 1926), at page 662 He died on 7 March 1775 at Kelburn.

Family

By his marriage (7 July 1755) to Elizabeth Ross, daughter of George Ross, 13th Lord Ross, Lord Ross's ancestral estates of Halkhead were ultimately brought into his family. She survived him, dying of

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in London on 9 October 1791. Their children included: * John Boyle (born 26 March 1756), who died in infancy *

George Boyle, 4th Earl of Glasgow George Boyle, 4th Earl of Glasgow, GCH FRS (26 March 1766 – 6 July 1843), styled Lord Boyle until 1775, was a British peer. He was the son of John Boyle, 3rd Earl of Glasgow, and his wife, Elizabeth, the daughter of George Ross, 13th Lord ...

References

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John John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second E ...