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unusual facts about Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery


Robert Gookin

Under the Commonwealth he received considerable grants of forfeited land, which, in order to secure at the approach of the Restoration of Charles II, he conveyed to Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, taking a lease of them for one hundred years.


Arthur Jones, 2nd Viscount Ranelagh

Her brothers included the chemist Robert Boyle and Lord Broghill, the later Earl of Orrery who was a prominent politician in Cromwellian and Restoration times.

Richard Jones, 1st Earl of Ranelagh

He was the eldest son of Arthur Jones, 2nd Viscount Ranelagh and Katherine Boyle, daughter of the Earl of Cork who counted amongst her brothers the chemist Robert Boyle and Lord Broghill, the later Earl of Orrery who was a prominent politician in Cromwellian and Restoration times.

Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery

Boyle fought with the Parliamentarians until the execution of the king, when he retired altogether from public affairs and took up his residence at Marston in Somersetshire.

Boyle married Lady Margaret Howard, 3rd daughter of Theophilus, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, whose charms were celebrated by Suckling in his poem "The Bride."


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