David Boyle, 7th Earl of Glasgow

David Boyle, 7th Earl of Glasgow (31 May 1833 – 13 December 1915), was a British naval commander and colonial governor. He served as Governor of New Zealand between 1892 and 1897.

Background Boyle was the son of Patrick Boyle (eldest son of David Boyle, Lord Boyle, by his first wife, Elizabeth Montgomerie). His mother was Mary Frances Elphinstone-Dalrymple, daughter of Sir Robert Dalrymple-Horn-Elphinstone, 1st Baronet. He succeeded in the earldom in 1890.

Royal Navy Boyle served with the Royal Navy during the Crimean and Second Opium wars. He was commander of when the ship wrecked in 1874. He retired with the rank of captain.

Governor of New Zealand Boyle was the Governor of New Zealand from 1892 to 1897. He was the cousin of another Governor, Sir James Fergusson.

Upon his return to the UK, Lord Glasgow was elevated to the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1897 as Baron Fairlie, of Fairlie in the County of Ayr, to enable him to sit in the House of Lords (the earldom of Glasgow and all its subsidiary titles being in the Peerage of Scotland).

Later life Lord Glasgow took an active interest in the city of Glasgow.

He received the honorary Doctor of Laws (LL.D) from the University of Glasgow when they celebrated the 450th jubilee in June 1901.

Family Lord Glasgow married Dorothea Elizabeth Thomasina Hunter-Blair (eldest daughter of Sir Edward Hunter-Blair, 4th Baronet, and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of George Wauchope), on 23 July 1873. (8 July 1884 – 1974), married (1) on 9 December 1913 Ethel Hodges (who died 1932), and (2) on 4 October 1934 Marie Gibb. Hon. Alan Reginald Boyle (8 October 1886 – 10 October 1958), married on 5 February 1916 to Isabel Julia Hull.

Lord Glasgow died in December 1915, aged 82, and was succeeded in the earldom by his eldest son, Patrick. The Countess of Glasgow died in January 1923.