Lionel Boyle, 3rd Earl of Orrery (11 July 1671 – 24 August 1703), styled Lord Broghill between 1679 and 1682, was an Anglo-Irish politician. Boyle was the son of

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, by Mary, daughter of

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. He was educated at the

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. He succeeded his father in the earldom in 1682. However, as this was an

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it did not entitle him to a seat in the English

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. He subsequently sat as member of parliament for

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from February to November 1695, from 1698 to January 1701 and again from November 1701 to 1702. Lord Orrery married his first cousin Mary, the illegitimate daughter of

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. He died at

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, London, in August 1703, aged 32, and was succeeded in the earldom by his younger brother,

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. The Dowager Countess of Orrery later married

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. She died in June 1714.

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