BOYLE, Sir Richard, Visct. Dungarvan [I] (1612-98), of Lismore Castle, co. Waterford.

Family and Education

b. 20 Oct. 1612, 2nd but 1st surv. s. of Sir Richard Boyle, 1st earl of Cork [I], and Catherine, da. of Sir Geoffrey Fenton, principal sec. of state [I]; bro. of Roger Boyle*.Add. 19832, f. 29. educ. travelled abroad, 1632-3;P. Little, ‘The New English in Europe, 1625-60’, in Community in Early Modern Ireland ed. R. Armstrong and T. Ó hAnnracháin (Dublin, 2006), 160. G. Inn (hon. adm.) 10 Mar. 1676.G. Inn Admiss. m. 3 July 1634, Elizabeth, da. of Henry Lord Clifford (later 5th earl of Cumberland), 2s. d.v.p. 5da. (4 d.v.p.).Chatsworth, CM/29, unfol.: 3 July 1654; countess of Burlington’s journal, unfol. Kntd. 30 Aug. 1624.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 186. suc. fa. as 2nd earl of Cork [I] 15 Sept. 1643. cr. Baron Clifford of Londesborough 4 Nov. 1644, 1st earl of Burlington 20 Mar. 1665; d. 15 Jan. 1698.CP.

Offices Held

Irish: PC, Munster 28 Sept. 1630.Lismore Pprs. ser. 1, i. 54. Gov. Youghal, co. Cork 1641;CP. cos. Cork and Waterford 1662; Halbouling Fort, Cork 1662.Oxford DNB. J.p. co. Cork 1658–?Chatsworth, CM/29, unfol.: 10 Feb. 1658. Ld. high treas. 27 June 1660–1695.Eg. 2551, f. 36; CP. PC, Dec. 1660, re-gazetted 21 Mar. 1685, 1 Dec. 1690.CP. Commr. act of settlement, 19 Mar. 1661; 1649 officers, 22 May 1662;NAI, Lodge’s MSS, I.A.53.55, ff. 131–2. remedy of defective titles, 1684;HMC Ormonde, i. 239. mitigation of forfeited recognizances, 1685.CSP Dom. 1685, p. 216.

Military: capt. of horse, royal army, Feb. 1639.Lismore Pprs. ser. 1, v. 89; E351/292. Capt. Prot. forces in Munster, 17 Dec. 1641-aft. 20 Dec. 1642.CJ ii. 347b; SP17/H/7, f. 95.

Local: ld. steward, Knaresborough 1664–d. Mar. – Nov. 1667CSP Dom. 1663–4, p. 519. Ld. lt. Yorks. (W. Riding), 1679–87. Recorder, York 1685–8.CP.

Parlimentarian

BOYLE, Sir Richard, Visct. Dungarvan [I] (1612-98), of Lismore Castle, co. Waterford.

: Visct. Dungarvan [I] (1612-98), of Lismore Castle, co. Waterford. 1612 – 98.

Likenesses

Likenesses: oil on canvas, A. Van Dyck, c.1640;Devonshire colln., Beamsley Hall, W. Yorks. oil on canvas, P. Lely, 1670.Drumlanrig Castle, Dumfries and Galloway.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

BOYLE, Sir Richard, Visct. Dungarvan [I] (1612-98), of Lismore Castle, co. Waterford.

Will

28 Aug. 1697, pr. 10 Feb. 1698.PROB11/448/1.

Estates

on m. acquired interest in Clifford estates in Yorks., Cumb. and Westmld.;Oxford DNB. by tripartite indenture of 1636 granted manor of Inchiquin and other lands in co. Cork, including Mallow House, also lands in cos. Kildare and Tipperary;NLI, MS 2639; D. Townshend, Life and Lttrs of the great earl of Cork (1904), 468, 470. c.1670 held 78,832 acres in Ireland, with estimated total income of £30,000.J. Ohlmeyer, Making Ireland English (New Haven, 2012), 308, 366, 370.

Oxford 1644

Yes

1640 Volume

oxford

Addresses

College of Youghal, co. Cork;BL, Althorp B3: settlement of estate, 14 May 1636. Long Acre, London c.1640-3;Lismore Pprs. ser. 1, v. 169; CSP Dom. 1641-3, p. 453. Lismore castle, co. Waterford from c.1653;Chatsworth, CM/29, unfol.: 29 Aug. 1653. countess of Sussex’s house, the Piazza, Covent Garden, Westminster c.1659;Chatsworth, Diary of Sir Richard Boyle, 1st earl of Burlington [‘Burlington's Diary’], unfol.: 2 Dec. 1659. house in Whitefriars, London c.1660;Chatsworth, countess of Burlington’s Journal, unfol.: 28 Aug. 1661. Burlington House, Piccadilly from 1667.B. Weinreb and C. Hibbert (ed.), The London Encyclopaedia (1983), 108.

Religion

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