Background
The son of John Boyle of Kelburn, Commissioner, and Marion Steuart, he was the Commissioner (Member of Parliament) to the Parliament of Scotland from the Bute constituency from 1689–1699.
The son of John Boyle of Kelburn, Commissioner, and Marion Steuart, he was the Commissioner (Member of Parliament) to the Parliament of Scotland from the Bute constituency from 1689–1699.
He was the last Treasurer-depute before the Union with England. He was raised to the Peerage of Scotland as Lord Boyle of Kelburn, Stewartoun, Cumbrae, Finnick, Largs and Dalry on 31 January 1699, and advanced to the titles of Viscount of Kelburn and Earl of Glasgow on 12 April 1703. After the Union, he sat as a Scottish representative peer from 1707 to 1710.
He was also Lord Clerk Register prior to 1714.