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 422 CORK IV. 1698. 3. Charles (Boyle), Earl OF Burlington, &c. [E.], also Earl of Corke, &€. [I.], grand- son and h., being s. and h. of Charles Boyle slykd Viscount DuNGARVAN abovcnamed. He d. 9 Feb. 1 703/4. V. 1704. 4. Richard (Boyle), Earl OF Burlington, ^c. [E.], also Earl of Corke, tfc. [I.], only s. and h. He  n « r c^ ON 5 1=: S^ ^ » O «• 'C « y _ ^ o &• 3 -< VI. 1753. 5. John (Boyle), Earl of Corke, Earl of Orrery, Viscount Dungarvan, Viscount Boyle of Kinalmeaky, Lord Boyle, Baron of Youghal, Baron of Bandon Bridge, and Baron Boyle of Broghill [I.], also Baron Boyle of Marston [G.B.], cousin and h. male,(^) being s. and h. of Charles, 4th Earl of Orrery and Baron Boyle of Broghill [I.], ist Baron Boyle of Marston, (*") Somerset, by Elizabeth, da. of John (Cecil), 5th Earl of Exeter, which Charles was br. and h. of Lionel, 3rd Earl of Orrery, both being sons of Roger, the 2nd Earl, who was s. and h. of another Roger, the ist Earl of Orrery and 1st Baron Boyle of Broghill [I.], who was the 2nd surv. s. of Richard, 1st Earl of Corke [I.]. He was /?. in Glasshouse Str., 13, and bap. 18 Jan. 1706/7, at St. James's, Westm.; matric. at Oxford (Ch. Ch.) 16 Aug. 1723; sue. his father (") as Earl of Orrery, &c. [1.], and Baron Boyle of Marston, 28 Aug. 1731; took his seat in the House [I.] {") As to the smallness of the estates which he thus inherited, see vol. ii, p. 433, note " b," sub Burlington. (^) The estate of Marston was purchased by the ist Earl of Cork for j^io,350, and left by him to his yr. s. Roger, afterwards the 1st Earl of Orrery, whose grandson, Charles, the 4th Earl, was, in 1711, fr. Baron Boyle of Marston. {") In his father's will, dat. 6 Nov. 1728, reference is made to him as having never "shewed much taste or inclination for the knowledge which study and learning afford," but this paternal pique is attributed by Dr. Johnson to the son not allowing his wife " to keep company with his father's mistress," and it is stated in Lodge (vol. i, p. 196) that "his Lordship hath been eminently distinguished in the literary world." Johnson, however, described him as " A feeble-minded man .... His conversation was like his writings, neat and elegant, but without strength. He grasped at more than his abilities could reach; tried to pass for a better talker, a better writer, and a better thinker than he was." Pope writes of him as one whose praises are "that precious ointment Solomon speaks of" In parliament he was an active opponent of Walpole, but he is chiefly known as a friend of Swift, of Pope, and of Johnson, and as the author of some not very able though spiteful Remarks on Swift, Translation oj the Letters of Pliny, i3c. See article on him by Sir Henry Craik, in Diet. Nat. Biog. G.E.C. and V.G.