Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Burlington

Richard Boyle
The Earl of Burlington.
Born	(1612-10-20)20 October 1612 Youghal, County Cork, Ireland
Died	15 January 1698(1698-01-15) (aged 85)
Title	1st Earl of Burlington
Tenure	1664–1698
Known for	English civil war
Nationality	British

Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Burlington, 2nd Earl of Cork (20 October 1612 – 15 January 1698) was an Anglo-Irish nobleman who served as Lord High Treasurer of Ireland and was a Cavalier.

He was born in The College in Youghal in the south-east of County Cork, Ireland, the sixth child and second son of Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, and his second wife, Catherine, daughter of Sir Geoffrey Fenton. On 13 August 1624, The Hon. Richard Boyle, Jr., was knighted at his father's house in Youghal, by Lord Falkland, the Lord Deputy of Ireland. As The Hon. Sir Richard Boyle, he then went on travels abroad with an annual allowance of £1500.

In 1639, the young Sir Richard undertook to raise, arm, and provide 100 horse to attend upon King Charles I of England in his expedition into the North of England against the Scots. For this and other occasions, his father, Lord Cork, supplied him with £5553 sterling. Sir Richard Boyle was returned as Member of Parliament for Appleby in the Long Parliament of 1640, and appointed a member of the Privy Council of England, but was subsequently excluded for his Royalist sympathies after the outbreak of the English Civil War.

He and Lord Inchiquin commanded the forces which defeated the Irish irregular army at the Battle of Liscarroll on 3 September 1642, thereby preserving the Protestant interest in southern Ireland for the remainder of the decade. A cessation of hostilities was concluded with the Irish a year later (15 September 1643). He then applied to the King, in December, for consent to bring his regiment to serve him in England, and landed his men near Chester the following February. He then marched to the King's aid in Dorset, supplying this monarch with large sums of money for his cause.