John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork and 5th Earl of Orrery, FRS (13 January 1707 – 16 November 1762) was an

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writer and a friend of

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and

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. Boyle was the only son of

Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery KT PC FRS (28 July 1674 – 28 August 1731) was an English nobleman, statesman and patron of the sciences. Early life The second son of Roger Boyle, 2nd Earl of Orrery, and his wife Lady Mary Sackvill ...

, and his wife Lady Elizabeth Cecil (1687–1708), daughter of

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. He was born at

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and attended

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. In 1743, he was one of several leading

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who communicated with the French government through Francis Sempill in order to elicit French support for an invasion to restore the Stuart line. He published a translation of the letters of

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in 1751, ''Remarks on the Life and Writings of Jonathan Swift'' in the same year, and the ''Memoirs of

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''. His ''Letters from Italy'' was published in 1773.

Family

He was married twice, first to Henrietta, daughter of George Hamilton, Earl of Orkney and his wife Elizabeth Hamilton, née Villiers.Livingstone, N. (2015). The Mistresses of Cliveden. New York: Ballantine Books, p. 148. His eldest son, Charles Boyle, Viscount Dungarvan, predeceased him and he was succeeded as

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by his younger son

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, who died in 1764 and passed the earldom to John's next son,

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. Elizabeth (b.1731), one of his daughters by his first wife, married Sir Thomas Worsley, 6th Baronet, and one of their children was Sir Richard Worsley, 7th Baronet. His second wife was Margaret Hamilton, daughter of John Hamilton of Caledon and Lucy Dopping. She owned considerable estates in Ulster. Their daughter Lucy (b.1744) married George Byng, 4th Viscount Torrington.

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