Career
Born in Stoke-on-Trent, Boyle was an undergraduate at Brasenose College, Oxford (matric, 1859), and was called to the bar in 1866. He also published a number of novels. and a variety of articles in journals
He described himself as a barrister and journalist in census records from 1871 to 1901. In 1911 he just did "literary work".
He was a newspaper correspondent in the Russo-Turkish war, and was a regular contributor to the Daily Telegraph, the Pall Mall Gazette and periodicals such as Blackwood"s, Cornhill, The New Review, and The Nineteenth Century.
He collaborated with Ashmore Russan on two titles serialised in the Boy"s Own Paper and later published as books In later life he wrote a number of books about orchids, which he kept as a hobby.