About Richard Boyle
Lived 1645 – 1665 (aged 19–20). Richard Boyle was a politician.
Richard Boyle, FRS (died 3 June 1665) was an Irish politician who was Member of Parliament for County Cork from 1661 until his death in action.
Boyle was the son of Richard Boyle, 2nd Earl of Cork and brother of Charles Boyle, 3rd Viscount Dungarvan. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford.
He was elected an Original Fellow of the Royal Society in 1663. A naval volunteer during the Second Anglo-Dutch War, Boyle was killed in action in Southwold Bay at the Battle of Lowestoft.
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Irish politician
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Richard Boyle was born in 1645.
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Richard Boyle died on 3 June 1665.
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Richard Boyle was a politician.
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