BOYLE, Hon. Henry (1669-1725), of Carleton House, Pall Mall, Westminster

Family and Education

b. 12 July 1669, 3rd but 2nd surv. s. of Hon. Charles Boyle†, Baron Clifford of Lanesborough, Yorks. by his 1st w.; bro. of Hon. Charles Boyle I*. educ. Westminster; travelled abroad 1685–8; Padua Univ. 1685; Trinity Coll. Camb. 1692, MA 1693, DCL 1720. unm. cr. Baron Carleton 19 Oct. 1714. Devonshire mss at Chatsworth House, Lismore pprs. box 28, Countess of Cork’s jnl. (ex. inf. Dr T. C. Barnard).

Offices Held

Cornet, Queen’s Horse (later 1 Drag. Gds.) 1685– Nov. 1688; cornet and maj. 2 Life Gds. by 1691–2; ld. of Treasury 1699–1702; keeper, royal garden at St. James’s Palace 1701; chancellor of the Exchequer 1701– Apr. 1708; PC 27 Mar. 1701; ld. treasurer [I] 1704–15; commr. union with Scotland 1706, Trade and Plantations 1707; sec. of state (north) Feb. 1708–10; PC [I] Sept. 1714–?; ld. pres. 1721–d. Cal. Treas. Bks. xviii. 237; xvi. 190; Lodge, Peerage of Ire. (1754), i. 99; Liber Munerum Publicorum Hiberniae ed. Lascelles, ii. 42; Boyer, Anne Annals, vi. 222; A. B. Beaven’s list of Irish PCs, Hist. of Parl.

MP [I] 1692–3; chairman cttee. supply Oct. 1692–?Nov. 1692.

Chairman cttee. of privileges and elections 1694–5, ways and means Mar. 1702, 1707; commr. public accts. 1695–7.

Ld. lt. and custos rot. Yorks. (W. Riding) 1704–15; v.-adm. Yorks. 1704–15.

Commr. Q. Anne’s bounty 1704; trustee, Dr Busby’s charity. A. Savidge, Q. Anne’s Bounty, 123–5; Rec. Old Westminsters, i. 113.

Parlimentarian

BOYLE, Hon. Henry (d.1725), of Pall Mall, Westminster.

Main residence: Carleton House, Pall Mall, Westminster.

Author

D.W.H.

Volume

Commons 1690-1715

Web Title

BOYLE, Hon. Henry (1669-1725)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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