Person Boyle; Charles (1674 - 1731); 4th Earl of Orrery Boyle Charles 1674 - 1731 British Male Chelsea, Middlesex 28 July 1674 Downing Street, Westminster 28 August 1731 Burial: Westminster Abbey, London, England, Europe

Vigo Lane, London (1718)

Soldier Education: St Paul's School; Christ Church, Oxford. BA (1694) Career: MP (Ireland) for Charleville (1695-1699); Receiver General in the Alienation Office (1699); MP for Huntingdon (1701-1705); wounded in duel with Francis Wortley in a dispute over his return for the seat; Colonel of a regiment of foot (1704-1710); served at the Battle of Malplaquet; Brigadier General (1709); Major General (1710); Colonel of the 21st Regiment (North British Fusiliers) (1710-1716); Envoy to Flanders, where he took part in the negotiations of the Treaty of Utrecht (1713); Privy Councillor; Lord of the Bedchamber (1714-1716); Lord Lieutenant of Somerset (1714-1715); deprived of his military command and imprisoned in the Tower of London on suspicion of complicity in Layer's plot (1722-1723), being released when Richard Mead (FRS 1703) certified that continued imprisonment was dangerous to his life and was later discharged; he was a patron of Graham, who named the orrery after him Honours: KT 1705; 1st Baron Boyle of Marston, Somerset 1711 Son of Roger Boyle, 2nd Earl of Orrery, and his wife, Mary, daughter of Richard Sackville, 5th Earl of Dorset (FRS 1665) and his wife, Frances, daughter of Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex; succeeded his brother (1703); married Elizabeth, daughter of John Cecil, 5th Earl of Exeter and his wife, Anne, daughter of William Cavendish, 3rd Earl of Devonshire (FRS 1663); cousin of Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington Fellow 03/04/1706 Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB; Foster; GEC; Thomas International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 28 Jul 1674 - 28 Aug 1731 NA6731 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 17/03/2026 RS_NET\VirginiaM Yes 5fa71e28-9c0d-4d8b-ac9c-25c485accf19