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BURLINGTON. 81 [Cilarles Boyle, styled Viscount Dungarvan, 2d but 1st surv. & and li. ap. Imp. 12 Doc. 1039, Kin? Charles being his Godfather. By privy seal, 28 Jan. l(il>2.'3 !»■ was sum. to the House of Lords [I.] in one of his Father's Peerages, taking Ins seat 20 Feb. as VISCOUNT 1>UNUAUVAN.(») He was M.P. for co. York till 1689 when, by writ 1 G July 1 (389, he was sum. to the House of Lords [li.], v.p. in his Father's Bftrony,(») as LOUD CLIFFORD OF LANESBUROUGH( h ). Hew. firstly Jane, yst. da. of William (Seymour), Duke of Somerset, by his 2nd wife Frances, da. of Robert (Devekeitx), Earl of Essex. She d. 23 Nov. and was bur. (as" The Ltd;/ June Clijm-d") 8 Dec. 1679 in Westm. Abbey, aged 42 years, 2 months and 17 days. M.I. Admon. 21 Jauy. 1679/80. He m. secondly Arethusa, 6th da. of George (Berkeley), 1st Earl Berkeley by Elizabeth, da. of John Massingberd. He d. v. p. 12 Oct. 1694. Admon. as " Charles, Viscount Clifford" of Loudsborough, co. York, 23 Feb. 1094/5 to a creditor. His widow d. 11 and was bur. 17 Feb. 1742/3 at Cranford, Midx. Will pr. 1743]. II. 1698. 2. CnARLES (Boyle), Earl op Burlington, &c. [E.], also Earl of Cork, Are. [I.] grandson and h, being a. and h. of Charles, Viscount Dungarvan [I.] and Lord Clifford of Lanesborough, by Jane his 1st wife, abovenamed, which Charles was s. and h. ap. of the last Earl. He was 6. before 1674 ; was M.P. for Appleby, 1690-94 : Governor of co. Cork, 1691 ; Lord of the Bedchamber ; and on 12 Oct. 1694, sue. his Father in the Irish Viscountcy and English Baronv abovenamed and was sum. to Pari. 20 Nov. following as LORD CLIFFORD OF LANESBOROUGH. Lord Treasurer [I.] 16 Nov. 1695, and 12 Sep. 1702 ; P.C. to William III and Queen Anne; Lord-Lieut, of the West Riding of co. York, 1699 ; Vice-Admiral of co. York, 1701 ; Commissioner to treat of the Scotch Union, 1702. He IB. 26 Jany. 16S7/8 Juliana, da. and h. of the Hon. Henry Noel of North Lullenham, Rutland '2nd s. of Baptist, 2nd Viscount Campden) by Elizabeth, da. and coheir of Sir William Wale, Alderman of London. He d. at his house at Chiswick, Midx. 9 and was bur. 28 Feb. 1703/4 at Londesborough. Will dat. 4, pr. 26 Feb. 1703/4. His widow, who was b. 19 and bap. 30 May 1672 at Wakerley, co. Northampton, and who was Mistress of the Robes to Queen Anne, d. in Pall Mall, Midx. 17 Oct. and was bur. 1 Nov. 1750 at Londesborough. Admon. 17 Jauy. 1750/1. III. 1701, 3. RicnARD (Boyle), Earl of Burlington, (1664) . Loud Clifford (1628) and Baron Clifford of Lanbsborough (1644) t0 [E.], also Earl of Cork, &c. [I.] only s. and h. 6. 25 April and bap. Ijgg 3 May 1694 at St. James Westm. In 1715, when of full age he was made Lord Treasurer [I.] P.C. [I.] Gov. of co. Cork, also Vice- Admiral of co. York, and Lord-Lieut, both of the East and West Riding. P.C. 1729. El. KG. 18 May and inst. 18 June 1730. Capt. of the Gent. Pensioners 1731-33 ; Gov. of Greenwich Hospital ; Constable of Knaresboro' Castle &c. He was well known as an amateur Architect^) and as the Patron of Gay and Pope, of Kent the Architect, &c, indeed so liberal were his expenses in buildings and restorations of the fine arts, that it is said they amounted to above £200,000, to raise which he had to sell land in Ireland, worth £9,000 a year. On 25 May 1737 his claim to the BARONY OF CLIFFORD, a: by the writ (*) He is probably the ordy instance of an eldest son of a Peer being sum. v.p. to the House of Lords in the two respective Kingdoms of England and Ireland. Such summonses in Ireland were rare, being only nine in all, extending from 1613 to 1736. See a list thereof in Vol. 1, p. 2, note "a," ( b ) The writ was directed to him as " Charles Boyle de Lanesborough," and he sat is " Lord Boyle," but it was amended 10 Aug. following under a Royal Warrant, and he afterwards sat as " Lord Clifford." See " Courthope." {') The villa he erected at Chiswick, Midx., was a specimen. It was said of it that it was " too small to live iu and too large to hang to a watch." The well-known portico at Burlington House, Piccadilly, is not supposed to have been his design, he being but 23 in 1718 when it was erected. He is represented as a mason going up a ladder in Hogarth's " Man of Taste " (whore Pope is whitewashing Burlington House and bespattering the Duke of Ch satirised, with his friends, in Hogarth's " Taste of the Town." The Earl was also a great collector of pictures. G