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Lord Cork's subsidiary titles are: Viscount Dungarvan (created 1620), Viscount Boyle of Kinalmeaky (1628), Baron Boyle of Youghal (1616), Baron Boyle of Broghill (1628), Baron Boyle of Bandon Bridge (1628) and Baron Boyle of Marston, of Marston in the County of Somerset (1711). All titles are in the Peerage of Ireland, except the Barony of Boyle of Marston, which is in the Peerage of Great Britain. The courtesy title of Lord Cork's eldest son and heir is Viscount Dungarvan.
Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, (1566-1643) known as the "Great Earl", was born in Canterbury and educated at Cambridge. He married an Irish heiress and bought large estates in Ireland. One of his sons was Robert Boyle, a physicist and chemist. Another was Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, a statesman and a writer. The 2nd earl was known as the "Rich Boyle". Married Elizabeth Clifford , daughter of the 5th Earl of Cumberland and descendant of Edward III. His son Richard Boyle, 2nd Earl of Cork died in 1665 in the Battle of Solebay, and another son, Charles Boyle, married Jane Seymour, a descendant of Henry VII.The 3rd Earl was the grandson of the 2nd Earl. He married Juliana Noel .The 4th Earl (also 3rd Earl of Burlington) was an architect who published Andrea PalladioI Quattro Libri dell'Architettura" Andrea Palladio ( November 30, 1508 1580) was an architect born in Padua, Italy. Apprenticed as a stonecutter in Padua when he was 13, he broke his contract after only 18 months and fled to the nearby town of Vicenza.'s designs of Ancient Roman architecture. He was known as Lord Burlington. Chiswick HouseChiswick House is a Palladian villa in Burlington Lane, London W4, England. The house belonged to Richard Boyle, 4th Earl of Cork and also known as Lord Burlington and he designed it in 1729, with garden design input from William Kent. Boyle's daughter Ch was designed by the 4th Earl and William KentWilliam Kent (Bridlington, Yorkshire, c. 1685 April 12, 1748) was a British architect and landscape architect. According to Horace Walpole, Kent "was a painter, an architect, and the father of modern gardening. In the first character he was below mediocri. His daughter Charlotte Boyle married William Cavendish, the 4th Duke of DevonshireThe Dukes of Devonshire are members of the aristocratic Cavendish family in the United Kingdom. They were related to the 17th century Dukes of Newcastle, with whom they shared the family name of Cavendish. Although in modern usage the county of Devon is n. The 5th earl was a writerThough anyone who creates a written work may be called a writer the term is usually reserved for those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. Skilled writers are adept at using language to portray ideas and a friend of Jonathan SwiftJonathan Swift ( November 30, 1667 October 19, 1745) was an Anglo-Irish writer and satirist. Jonathan Swift was born, after his father had been dead for seven months, to an English mother, and educated by his Uncle Godwin. After a not very successful care, Alexander PopeAlexander Pope ( May 21, 1688 May 30, 1744) was a well known English poet and writer. Born to a Catholic family in 1688, Alexander was educated mostly outside "normal" schools and colleges as a result of the penal laws that were in force at the time to up and Samuel JohnsonDr Samuel Johnson ( September 18, 1709 December 13, 1784), often referred to simply as Dr Johnson was one of England's greatest literary figures: a critic, poet, essayist, biographer and lexicographer whose bon mots are still frequently quoted in print to.