Courtenay Boyle
| The Hon. Sir Courtenay Boyle | |
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Admiral Courtenay Boyle, 1813, engraving by Joyce Gold.
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| Born | 3 September 1770 |
| Died | 21 May 1844 (aged 73) |
| Allegiance | Kingdom of Great Britain |
| Service/branch | Royal Navy |
| Rank | Vice-Admiral |
| Commands held |
HMS Fox HMS Kangaroo HMS Hyaena HMS Cormorant HMS Seahorse HMS Amfitrite HMS Royal William |
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| Awards | Knight Commander of the Royal Guelphic Order |
| Relations | Sir Edmund Boyle (father) |
The Hon. Sir Courtenay Boyle KCH (3 September 1770 – 21 May 1844) was an officer of the Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary Wars. In 1807, as a member of the Parliament, he represented the borough of Bandon.
Courtenay Boyle was born in 1770, the son of Edmund Boyle, 7th Earl of Cork, and his wife Anne Courtenay, second daughter of Kelland Courtenay, niece to John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich. Courtenay Boyle was a relative of Captain Sir Charles Boyle, who commanded the 98-gun HMS Windsor Castle at the battle of Cape Finisterre in 1805. He was also a relative of Commodore Robert Boyle, who died in an hurricane off Jamaica while commanding a squadron dispatched to the West Indies.
Boyle went to sea aboard during the American War of Independence, he went out in HMS Gibraltar, and on returning home was sent to a naval academy at Greenwich. He entered the Royal Navy on 12 September 1780, serving as a midshipman on board the frigate HMS Latona frigate, commanded by Sir Hyde Parker. In this ship he was present at the Battle of Dogger Bank between the squadron under the command of Sir Hyde Parker, the father of the Latona's captain, and a Dutch force under Admiral Johan Zoutman. Some time later he fell from the booms into the orlop, and was obliged to go on shore to recover.
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