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264 BOYLE BOYLE OF KELBURN and BOYLE OF STEWARTOUN &c. BARONY [S.] I. David Boyle, of Kelburn, co. Ayr, was, on 31 Jan. 1698/9, cr. LORD BOYLE OF KELBURN, 1. 1699. STEWARTOUN, CUMBRA, LARGS and DALRY L 1703. [S.]. On 12 Apr. 1703, he was cr. EARL OF GLASGOW, VISCOUNT OF KELBURN, and LORD BOYLE OF STEWARTOUN, CUMBRAES, FINNICK, LARGS, AND DALRY [S.], with a spec. rem. (in both instances) to heirs male. See "Glasgow," Earldom of [S.], cr. 1703. BOYLE OF KINALMEAKY VISCOUNTCY [I.] I. Lewis Boyle,(^) 4th but 2nd surv. . s. of Richard, ist Earl of Cork. [I.], "the great Earl," by his 2nd wife, Catharine, da. of Sir Geoffrey Fenton, was l>. 23 May 16 19, and was, v.p., cr. BARON OF BANDON BRIDGE and VISCOUNT BOYLE OF KINALMEAKY, CO. Cork [I.], on 28 Feb. 1627/8 (being then but 8 years of age), with a spec, rem., failing the heirs male of his body, to the heirs male of the body of Earl Richard, his father, whom failing, to the heirs male of the said Earl for ever-C") Knighted i Apr. 1628. Adm. to Gray's Inn, 17 Mar. 1635/6. (*) " The four eldest [surv.] sons of the Earl of Cork are said to have been popu- larly distinguished, as Richard the Rich (afterwrards 2nd Earl of Cork [I.],irr. in 1664, Earl of Burlington); Lewis the Faliant {cr. in 1628, Viscount Boyle of Kinalmeaky [I.]); Roger the Wise, (cr. in 1628, Baron Boyle of Broghill [I.], and in 1660, Earl of Orrery [I-]); and Francis the Just, (cr. in 1660, Viscount Shannon [I.]). The fifth, his father's favourite, was the celebrated Robert Boyle, the Philosopher, whose un- decorated name, it is usual to observe, was superior to any title. He [d. 30 Dec. 1691, but] left no descendants." See Craik's Romance of the Peerage, vol. iv, p. 46. G.E.C. The only parallel cases are (a) that of Sir William Bourchier, Count of Eu, all of whose sons, to the number of 4, were peers of the realm and sat together in Pari., i.e. (i) Henry, Count of Eu, cr. Earl of Essex 1461, (2) Thomas, Cardinal Bourchier, Archbishop of Canterbury, (3) Sir William Bourchier, K.G., sum. to Pari, as Lord FitzWarine, (4) Sir John Bourchier, K.G., sum. to Pari, as Lord Berncrs. (See also note sub Eu). [b] That of the istEarl of Mornington [I.], 4 of whose 5 sons enjoyed, simultaneously, a like distinction, i.e. (i) Richard, Marquess Wellesley [I.], (2) William, Baron Mary- borough [U.K.], afterwards Earl of Mornington [I.], (3) Arthur, Duke of Wellington, (4) Henry, Baron Cowley. (See note sub Cowley), [c] That of Ralph Nevill, Earl of Westmorland, no less than 13 of his relatives sitting together in the House of Lords from 1450 to 1455, i.e., 4 of his sons-in-law, 4 of his grandsons, and 5 of his sons, the latter being (i) Richard, Earl of Salisbury, (2) George, Lord Latimer, (3) William, Lord Fauconbcrg, (4) Edward, Lord Abergavenny, (5) Robert, Bishop of Durham. See also note sub Westmorland. V.G. C^) The Privy Seal, dat. at Westm. 30 Nov. 1627, (directing, also, the honour of knighthood to be conferred on him) and the preamble of the patent itself, are in Lodge, vol. i, p. 164. The patent is printed in Nicolas' Earldom of Devon as an