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266 BOYLE BOYLE CO. LIMERICK i.e. "Boyle, co. Limerick," Barony [I.] {Boyle), see "Shannon," Viscountcy of [I.], cr. i66o;(^) extinct 1740. BOYLE OF MARSTON BARONY. I. Charles (Boyle), Earl of Orrery, Lord Boyle, Baron of Broghill [I.], was on 5 Sep. 171 1, cr. 1. 1 171 1. BARON BOYLE of Marston, Somerset. See "Orrery," Earldom of [L], cr. 1660. BOYLE CO. WICKLOW i.e. "Boyle, co. Wicklow," Barony [I.] (Boyle), see "Blesington," Viscountcy of [L], cr. 1673; extinct 1732. BOYLE OF YOUGHAL BARONY. [L] I. Sir Richard Boyle, P.C. [L], was, on 6 or 29 J g J g Sep. 1 6 1 6, cr. BARON BOYLE OF YOUGHAL, co. Cork. On 26 Oct. i62ohe was cr. Viscount Dungar- VAN and Earl of Cork. [L]. See "Cork," Earldom of [L], cr. 1620. BOYNE VISCOUNTCY [L] i. Gustavus Hamilton, 3rd and yst. s. of Sir Frederick H., of Manor Hamilton, (formerly . 1717. Carrowrosse)intheBarony ofDromahaire,co.Leitrim (sometime an officer in the service of Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, and, subsequently, of James I and Charles 1 of England), by Sidney, da. andh. of Sir John Vaughan, Gov. of Londonderry, which Frederick was yr. s. of Claud (Hamilton), ist Lord Paisley [S.]. He was b. 1642; matric. at Trin. Coll. Dublin, 17 Apr. 1661, and early joined the army. Being in attendance as Capt. on the Duke of Ormond, Chancellor of Oxford, he was cr. D.C.L. of that Univ. on 5 Aug. 1677. P.C. [I.] Apr. 1710; Col. of the 20th Foot 1689-1706. In 1689 he espoused the Protestant cause, defending Coleraine and Derry against the Irish, distinguishing himself at the battle of the Boyne (where his horse was shot under him), and at the storming of Athlone, of which he was made Gov., and received agrant of forfeited lands. He was M.P. for co. Donegal 1 692-93, 1695-99, and 1703-13, and for Strabane 1713-14. Brig. Gen. 1696; Maj. Gen. 1704. He was, on 20 Oct. 17 15, cr. BARON HAMILTON OF STACKALLAN [I.], and in less than two years afterwards was cr., on 20 Aug. 1717, VISCOUNT BOYNE in the province of Leinster [I.].(i') (*) See ante, p. 264, note " a." (^) The copious preambles to both these creations are in Lodge, vol. v, p. 176, Ssfc.