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CORK 421 St. Mary's Abbey there, aged nearly 77. M.I.(') Will dat. 24 Nov. 1642 (in which are several interesting bequests), pr. in Prerog. Ct. [I.] i668.() III. 1643. 2. Richard (Boyle), Earl OF CoRKE, Viscount DuNGARVAN, ViSCOUNT BoYLE OF KlNALMEAKY, Lord Boyle, Baron of Youghal and Baron of Bandon Bridge, 2nd but 1st surv. s. and h.,^ b. 20 Oct. 161 2, at Youghal. By the death j./>., 2 Sep. 1642, of his br. Lewis, Viscount Boyle of KiNALMEAKY, and Baron of Bandon Bridge, co. Cork [I.], who had been so cr. 28 Feb. (>i']l% with a spec, rem., failing the heirs male of his body, to those of his father, 6fc. (see under that title, vol. ii, p. 264), he may possibly have sue. to those dignities, though at that date (1642) he was only heir apparent of his father; anyhow on his father's death in the next year (1643) he sue. thereto, as also to his father's titles. Having m. Elizabeth, suo jure Baroness Clifford [1628], he was on 4 Nov. 1644 cr. BARON CLIFFORD OF LANESBOROUGH, co. York,C') and on 20 Mar. 1663/4 cr. EARL OF BURLINGTON, otherwise Bridlington, co. York. He d. 13 Jan. 1697/8. [Charles Boyle, styled Viscount Dungarvan, 2nd but ist surv. s. and h., was v.p. sum. to the House of Lords [I.] 20 Feb. 1662/3 as Viscount Dungarvan, and to the House of Lords [E.] 16 July 1689 as Lord Clifford of Lanesborough.(^) He d. v.p. 12 Oct. 1694.] -1 o n O c Z o H O Z m o 3 (^) The most interesting account of "the great Earl of Cork" (as he is usually styled) down to the year 1632 is, by himself, in his True Remembrances, printed in Birch's edition of the works of (his son) Robert Boyle, the Philosopher. " One of the chief causes of his success was the introduction of manufactures and mechanical arts by settlers from England. From his ironworks alone, according to Boate, he made a clear gain of ^^100,000." Sir Richard Cox, in his Ireland, says of him that he " was one of the most extraordinary persons, either that or any other age has produced, with respect to the great and just acquisition of estate that he made, and the public works that he began and finished, for the advancement of the English interest and the protestant religion in Ireland, as charities, almshouses, free schools, bridges, castles and towns, viz., Lismore, Tallaghe, Cloghnikilty, Tunyskeen, Castleton and Bandon, which last place cost him j^ 14,000." G.E.C. He was "a letter writer of extraordinary talent. His style is light, witty, and allusive." V.G. C") A long extract therefrom is in Lodge, vol. i, p. 152. <^) His elder br., Roger Boyle, h. at Youghal i Aug. i6o6, d. at school at Deptford, Kent, 10 Oct. 161 5, before his father's elevation to the peerage, and was bur. there. M.I. He was not slain at Liscarrol in 1642, as stated in Diet. Nat. Biog., which fate befel the 4th son, Lewis, Viscount Boyle of Kinalmeaky. V.G. C) As to the only record of this creation see vol. ii, p. 454, note " b." if) See vol. i. Appendix G, as to this instance of an eldest son being sum. v.p., both to the English and Irish House of Lords in one of his father's peerages in each Kingdom, which has only one parallel in the case of the eldest son of the ist Duke of Ormonde. V.G.