Background
A younger son of the 5th Earl of Cork and Margaret Hamilton, he succeeded to his half-brother"s titles in 1764.
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Edmund Boyle
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Career
He died, aged 56 in Marston House and was buried in Street John"s Church in Frome in Somerset. The ODNB considers that Charles Dickens used Maria, Lady Cork as the template for Mrs Leo Hunter in The Pickwick Papers and that "Benjamin Disraeli, who knew Lady Cork well, is said to have described her accurately as Lady Bellair in his 1837 novel Henrietta Temple".
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Born
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March 30, 1798 (aged 55) -
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Ireland