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Henry Boyle, 1st Earl of Shannon
b.1682
d.28 Dec 1764
  1. Margaret Boyle
  2. Henry Boyle, 1st Earl of Shannon1682 - 1764
  1. Richard Boyle, 2nd Earl of Shannon1727 - 1807
  2. Juliana Boyle1728 - 1804
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Name Henry Boyle, 1st Earl of Shannon
Gender Male
Birth[1] 1682
Marriage to Lady Henrietta Boyle
Death[1] 28 Dec 1764
Reference Number? Q5718485?


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Henry Boyle, 1st Earl of Shannon, PC (1682 – 28 December 1764), was an Anglo-Irish politician and peer who served as the speaker of the Irish House of Commons from 1733 to 1756. A prominent parliamentarian who sat for almost fifty years in the Parliament of Ireland, Boyle frequently defended Irish interests against British officials, eventually leading to a legal crisis which saw him step down as speaker in return for a peerage.

Born in Castlemartyr, Ireland to an Anglo-Irish family, Boyle was educated in England at Westminster School and the University of Oxford. In 1705, Boyle inherited the family estates in Ireland after his elder brother died. Two years later in 1707, Boyle entered the Irish political scene, being elected to the Parliament of Ireland and successively representing the constituencies of Midleton, Kilmallock and County Cork for almost five decades.

In 1733, Boyle, by now the leader of a large group of Irish politicians known as the "Munster squadron", was elected as speaker of Ireland's House of Commons. He was appointed to the Irish revenue board two years later, and was also chosen to serve as a Lord Justice of Ireland fifteen separate times throughout his career. For the next two decades, Boyle effectively presided over Irish political affairs as one of the leading politicians in Ireland.

A legal crisis broke out in 1753 when the Duke of Dorset dismissed Boyle from his offices over a dispute concerning the failure of a money bill. However, he was replaced by the Marquess of Hartington in 1755, and the new viceroy moved to negotiate a settlement. In 1756, Boyle agreed to step down as speaker in return for being raised to the Irish peerage as the Earl of Shannon. Boyle died of a gout attack in Dublin on 28 December 1764.

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  1. 1.0 1.1 Henry Boyle, 1st Earl of Shannon, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.