Gen Edmund Boyle

8th Earl of Cork and Orrery, 5th Baron Boyle of Marston in the county of Somerset


Born: 21 Oct 1767 Marston House, Somerset, England

Father: Edmund Boyle 7th Earl of Cork and Orrery, Viscount Dungarvan, Baron Boyle of Youghal and Baron Boyle of Broghil of the Kingdom of Ireland; 4th Baron Boyle of Marston in the county of Somerset; Colonel of the Militia of the County of Somerset

Mother: Anne Courtenay (daughter of Kelland Courtenay

Wife: Isabella Henrietta Poyntz (3rd daughter of Isabella Courtenay and William Poyntz, of Midgham, Berkshire)

Died: 29 Jun 1856 (succeeded by his grandson Richard Edmund St Lawrence Boyle)

Buried: in vault beneath the Lady Chapel, St John the Baptist, Frome, Somerset, England