Capt Robert Boyle-Walsingham, MP

Born: Mar 1736

Father: Henry Boyle 1st Earl of Shannon

• Born: 1684 in Castlemartyr, Cork, Ireland
• Died: 27 Dec 1764 in Henrietta Street, Dublin, Ireland
• Buried: 31 Dec 1764 in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland

Mother: Henrietta Boyle (aka Harriet)

• Born: 9 Feb 1700
• Christened: 1 Mar 1700 in St James, Westminster, Middlesex, England
• Married: Sep 1726
• Died: 13 Dec 1746 in Henrietta Street, Dublin, Ireland
• Buried: 16 Dec 1746 in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland

Wife: Charlotte Williams (2nd daughter of Sir Charles Hanbury Williams, KB and Frances Coningsby)

• Married: 17 Jul 1759
• Children:
  • Richard Boyle-Walsingham
    • Born: 1762
    • Died: 13 Oct 1788 in Bristol
  • Charlotte Boyle-Walsingham Baroness de Ros
    • Born: abt 1770 in Castlemartyr, Cork, Ireland
    • Married: Lord Henry FitzGerald (fourth son of 22 children borne by James FitzGerald, 20th Earl of Kildare, 1st Duke of Leinster and Emily Mary Lennox) on 3 Aug 1791
• Died: 1790

Key Historical Events:

• Sat in English Parliament for Knaresborough, Yorkshire 1758-1761 and 1768-1780
• Sat in Irish Parliament for Dungarvan, Co Waterford 1758-1760
• Sat in English Parliament for Fowey, Cornwall 1761-1768
• The first Provincial Grand Master of Kent within the Masons in 1770

Died: Oct 1779 (lost on board the Thunderer, man-of-war, of which he was commander, in a hurricane in the West Indies)

Robert was born as just Robert Boyle but assumed the additional surname on inheriting a share of an estate which had formerly belonged to a kinswoman, Lady Osborn, whose maiden name had been Walsingham