Robert Edward Boyle (March 1809 – 3 September 1854)
was a British soldier and
Liberal Party
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politician.
Boyle was the fourth son of
Edmund Boyle, 8th Earl of Cork, and his wife Isabella Henrietta (née Poyntz). He served with the
Coldstream Guards
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and achieved the rank of
colonel
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At the
1847 general election he was elected unopposed as the
Member of Parliament (MP) for
Frome
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Boyle was returned unopposed in
1852
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but that election was later voided after an electoral petition, because Boyle's position as Secretary of the
Most Illustrious Order of St Patrick election was held to be an
office of profit under the crown. He was re-elected unopposed at the resulting by-election in March 1853,
and held his seat in the
House of Commons
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until his death the following year, aged 45.
Serving in the
Crimean War
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, Boyle died of fever in
Varna
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, and was
buried at sea
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He married Georgiana, daughter of
Abraham Wildey Robarts, in 1844. They had one son and two daughters. Boyle died in September 1854, aged 45, and was succeeded as Member of Parliament for Frome by his nephew
Viscount Dungarvan. His wife survived him by almost 60 years and died in 1911.
References
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1809 births
1854 deaths
Coldstream Guards officers
Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
UK MPs 1847–1852
UK MPs 1852–1857
Younger sons of earls
British Army personnel of the Crimean War
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