Background
He became Earl of Cork and Orrery in 1798 on the death of his father Edmund Boyle, 7th Earl of Cork and was appointed a Knight of the Order of Street Patrick on 22 July 1835. His mother was Anne daughter of Kelland Courtenay (c 1707 – 1748), Member of Parliament for Truro and then Huntingdon, by Elizabeth, sister to John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich.
