BOYLE, DAVID (_2 son of Patrick Boyle of Shewalton, Ayrshire who d.
26 Feb. 1798._) _b._ Irvine, Ayrshire 26 July 1772; ed. at Univ.
of Edin; member of Faculty of Advocates 14 Dec. 1793; solicitor
general for Scotland 9 May 1807; M.P. for Ayrshire 5 June 1807 to
Feb. 1811; a lord of Session and Justiciary 23 Feb. 1811; lord
justice clerk 15 Oct. 1811; P.C. 11 April 1820; lord justice
general of Scotland and lord president of Court of Session 9 Oct.
1841 to May 1852; distinguished for his personal appearance, there
are full-length portraits of him by Sir J. W. Gordon at Faculty of
Advocates and at Society of Writers to the Signet Edinburgh. _d._
Shewalton 30 Jany. or 6 Feb. 1853. _I.L.N. xxii_, 76, 134 (1853),
_portrait_.
BOYLE, JOHN (_2 son of Edmund Boyle 8 Earl of Cork 1767–1856_). _b._
Wimpole st. London 13 March 1803; ed. at Winchester and Ch. Ch.
Ox, B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827; M.P. for co. Cork 4 Dec. 1827 to 24 July
1830, and for Cork city 11 Aug. 1830 to 3 Dec. 1832. _d._ Rock
Wood, Torquay 6 Dec. 1874.
BOYLE, ROBERT (_son of Mr. Boyle of Hamilton Lanarkshire, surgeon_).
_b._ Hamilton 1821; started a bakery for manufacture of pure bread
at Glasgow; lectured for missionary purposes in Scotland; invented
a new description of detonating powder 1866 which was reported
upon favourably by principal military authorities; invented an ink
which is perfectly inerasable; invented the Self-Acting Air-pump
ventilator which was awarded highest and only prize given to roof
ventilators by judges at International Medical and Sanitary
Exhibition 1881. _d._ 2 Sep. 1878. _Robert Boyle inventor and
philanthropist a biographical sketch by L. Saunders_ 1885,
_portrait_.
BOYLE, ROBERT EDWARD (_brother of John Boyle 1803–74_). _b._ London
March 1809; ensign 68 Foot 14 Nov. 1826; captain Coldstream guards
10 Dec. 1847 to death; secretary to Order of St. Patrick 1837–53;
groom in waiting to the Queen 1846–52 and 1853 to death; secretary
to master general of the Ordnance Dec. 1853 to death; M.P. for
Frome 30 July 1847 to death. _d._ Varna 3 Sep. 1854.
BOYLE, ROBERT FREDERICK. _b._ 13 June 1841; ed. at Ball. coll. Ox.,
B.A. 1864, M.A. 1866; fellow of All Souls’ coll.; barrister M.T.
17 Nov. 1866; inspector of schools 16 May 1871. _d._ Florence 15
May 1883.
BOYLE, WILLIAM. _b._ 25 Jany. 1821; ensign 15 Foot 6 Dec. 1838;
lieut. col. 89 Foot 13 Oct. 1858 to death; C.B. 20 May 1871. _d._
10 Craven hill gardens, London 14 Feb. 1874.
BOYLE, WILLIAM GEORGE. _b._ Dublin 12 Aug. 1830; 2 lieut. 21 Foot 9
Feb. 1849; captain Coldstream guards 24 Nov. 1863 to 1867; lieut.
col. 2 Somerset militia 23 March 1868 to 12 Sep. 1870; M.P. for
Frome 23 July 1856 to 21 March 1857; F.C.S., F.G.S. _d._ San
Francisco 22 April 1880.
BOYLE, WILLIAM ROBERT AUGUSTUS. Barrister L.I. 24 Nov. 1835; author
of _A practical treatise on the law of charities_ 1837;
_Inspiration of book of Daniel_ 1863; _The tribute of Assyria to
biblical history_ 1868; _Literature under the shade of Great
Britain_ 1870, _2 ed._ 1870. _d._ 7 Church st. Kensington 20 May
1875.
BOYNE, GUSTAVUS HAMILTON, 6 Viscount. _b._ 12 April 1777; succeeded
29 Feb. 1816. _d._ 22 Belgrave sq. London 30 March 1855.
BOYNE, GUSTAVUS HAMILTON-RUSSELL, 7 Viscount (_son of the
preceding_). _b._ Downton hall near Ludlow 11 May 1797; assumed
name of Russell by r.l. 1850; created Baron Brancepeth of
Brancepeth, co. palatine of Durham 31 Aug. 1866. _d._ Brancepeth
castle, co. Durham 29 Oct. 1872.
BOYNTON, SIR HENRY, 9 Baronet. _b._ St. James’s st. Westminster 22
March 1778; succeeded 17 Nov. 1832. _d._ Burton Agnes, Yorkshire
29 Aug. 1854.
BOYNTON, SIR HENRY, 10 Baronet. _b._ Nafferton hall, Yorkshire 2
March 1811; succeeded 29 Aug. 1854. _d._ Burton Agnes 25 June
1869.
BOYS, EDWARD (_son of John Boys of Betteshanger, Kent, agriculturist
1749–1824_). _b._ 1785; entered navy 1796; a prisoner in France
1803–9; superintendent of Deal dockyard 16 Sep. 1837 to 1841;
retired captain 1 July 1851; author of _Narrative of a captivity
and adventures in France and Flanders_ 1827, which is the source
from which Captain Marryat in his novel _Peter Simple_ drew much
of the account of his hero’s escape; _Remarks on the
practicability and advantages of a Sandwich or Downs harbour_