David Boyle, 1st Earl of Glasgow

The Right Honourable The Earl of Glasgow P.C.
1711 engraving of the Earl by John Smith based upon a Jonathan Richardson portrait
Scottish Representative Peer in the House of Lords
In office 13 February 1707 – 21 September 1710
Preceded by	Established
Commissioner of the Parliament of Scotland for Bute
In office 1689–1699
Preceded by	James Stuart, 1st Earl of Bute
Succeeded by	William Stewart
Rector of the University of Glasgow
In office 1690–1691
Preceded by	Robert Ramsay
Succeeded by	Sir John Maxwell
Personal details
Born	David Boyle, esq. c. 1666 Kelburn Castle, Fairlie, North Ayrshire, Scotland
Died	31 October 1733 Fairlie, North Ayrshire
Spouse(s)	Margaret Lindsay-Crawford (m. 1687; her death 1695) Jean Mure (m. 1697; her death 1724)
Children	John Boyle, 2nd Earl of Glasgow Lady Jean Boyle Mure
Parents	John Boyle Marion Steuart
Occupation	Politician

David Boyle, 1st Earl of Glasgow (c. 1666 – 31 October 1733) was a Scottish politician and peer. He was the last Treasurer-depute before the Union with England.

David Boyle was born circa 1666 at Kelburn Castle, Fairlie, in North Ayrshire, Scotland. He was the son of John Boyle of Kelburn (d. 1685), a Shire Commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland for Bute, and Marion Steuart, daughter of Sir Walter Steuart of Allanton.

From 1689–1699, Boyle was the Commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland from the Bute constituency. In 1697, he was invested as Privy Counsellor. He was Rector of Glasgow University from 1690–1691, as well as the last Treasurer-depute before the Union with England.

The Earl was a supporter of the Acts of Union, and after their passage, he sat as a Scottish representative peer from 1707 to 1710, serving alongside his first wife's nephew, John Lindsay, 19th Earl of Crawford (d. 1713). In Scotland, some claimed that union would enable Scotland to recover from the financial disaster wrought by the Darien scheme through English assistance and the lifting of measures put in place through the Alien Act of 1705 to force the Scottish Parliament into compliance with the Act of Settlement. As many Commissioners had invested heavily in the Darien Scheme, they believed that they would receive compensation for their losses of which Article 15 granted £398,085 10s sterling to Scotland, a sum known as The Equivalent, to offset future liability towards the English national debt, that was in essence used as a means of compensation for investors in the Company of Scotland's Darien Scheme. In total, £20,000 (£240,000 Scots) was dispatched to Scotland, of which £12,325, more than 60% of the funding, was distributed to Boyle and The Duke of Queensbury, the Commissioner in Parliament.

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