Social Victorians/People/Cork and Orrery

Sol — Charles Spencer Canning Boyle, Lord Dungarvan — by "Spy," Vanity Fair 28 October 1897

Also Known As

• Family name: Boyle
• Earl of Cork and Orrery
  • Richard Edmund St. Lawrence Boyle, 9th Earl of Cork ( – 22 June 1904)
  • Charles Spencer Canning Boyle, 10th Earl of Cork and Orrery (22 June 1904 – 25 March 1925)
• Viscount Dungarvan (a courtesy title for the eldest son and heir apparent of the Earl of Cork and Orrery)
  • Charles Spencer Canning Boyle, Viscount Dungarvan (1861 – 22 June 1904)
• Cork

Organizations

Charles Spencer Canning Boyle

• Freemasons of Somerset (from 1891)

Ginger (William Henry Dudley) Boyle

• Cadet, HMS Britannia (15 January 1887)
• Midshipman (15 June 1889)
• Sub-lieutenant (1 July 1894)
• Lieutenant (1 October 1895)
• First Lieutenant, China Station, Boxer Rebellion (November 1898)
• Commanding officer on a destroyer (28 August 1902)
• Executive Officer (February 1904)
• Commander (31 December 1906)
• Captain (30 June 1913)
• British naval attaché, Rome (July 1913)
• "worked closely with T. E. Lawrence in support of the Arab Revolt"

Timeline

1897 July 2, Mr. W. Boyle attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball. (Mr. W. Boyle is #504 on the list of people who attended.)

1897 July 9, the Earl and Countess of Cork and Orrery were invited to the Garden Party at Marlborough House.

1902 July 24, Ginger (William) Boyle and Lady Florence Cecilia Keppel married.

1904 June 22, Charles Spencer Canning Boyle became Earl of Cork on the death of his father.

1918 November 21, Charles Spencer Canning Boyle and Mrs. Rosalie de Villiers Gray married.

Costume at the Duchess of Devonshire's 2 July 1897 Fancy-dress Ball

At the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball, Mr. W. Boyle — possibly William Henry Dudley Boyle — wore an "Elizabethan costume of violet and silver brocade."

Demographics

• Nationality: Irish; British
• Religion: Catholic

Family

• General Edmund Boyle, 8th Earl of Cork (21 October 1767 – 29 June 1856)
• Isabella Henrietta Poyntz ( – 29 November 1843)
  1. Edmund William Boyle, Viscount Dungarvan (2 October 1798 – 1 January 1826)
  2. Charles Boyle, Viscount Dungarvan (6 December 1800 – 25 August 1834)
  3. Hon. John Boyle (13 March 1803 – 6 December 1874)
  4. Colonel Hon. Robert Edward Boyle (March 1809 – 3 September 1854)
  5. Reverend Hon. Richard Cavendish Boyle (28 Feb 1812 – 30 March 1886)

• Charles Boyle, Viscount Dungarvan (6 December 1800 – 25 August 1834)
• Lady Catherine St. Lawrence ( – 4 April 1879)
  1. Louisa Caroline Elizabeth Boyle ( – 5 May 1876)
  2. Lady Mary Emily Boyle ( – 25 November 1916)
  3. Richard Edmund St. Lawrence Boyle, 9th Earl of Cork (19 April 1829 – 22 June 1904)
  4. Lt.-Col. Hon. William George Boyle (12 August 1830 – 24 March 1908)
  5. Major Hon. Edmund John Boyle (25 November 1831 – 21 April 1901)

• Hon. John Boyle (13 March 1803 – 6 December 1874)
• Hon. Cecilia FitzGerald-de Ros ( – 6 October 1869)
  1. Colonel Gerald Edmund Boyle (20 June 1840 – 28 December 1927)
  2. Robert Frederick Boyle (13 January 1841 – 15 May 1883)
  3. Georgiana Olivia Boyle (27 January 1843 – 15 January 1931)
  4. Edmund Montague Boyle (17 July 1845 – 11 August 1885)

• Richard Edmund St. Lawrence Boyle, 9th Earl of Cork (19 April 1829 – 22 June 1904)
• Lady Emily Charlotte de Burgh (19 October 1828 – 10 October 1912)

1. Lady Emily Harriet Catherine Boyle (c. 1855 – 28 July 1931)
2. Lady Grace Elizabeth Boyle (c. 1858 – 23 May 1935)
3. Lady Honora Janet Boyle (c. 1859 – 11 March 1953)
4. Lady Isabel Lettice Theodosia Boyle (d. 6 April 1904)
5. Lady Dorothy Blanche Boyle (c. 1860 – 7 June 1938)
6. Charles Spencer Boyle, 10th Earl of Cork (24 November 1861 – 25 March 1925)
7. Robert John Lascelles Boyle, 11th Earl of Cork (1864–1934)

• Colonel Gerald Edmund Boyle (20 June 1840 – 28 December 1927)
• Lady Elizabeth Theresa Pepys ( – 24 January 1897)
  1. Lady Cecilia Georgiana Boyle ( – 16 April 1952)
  2. Lady Theresa Selina Boyle ( – 29 June 1956)
  3. Major Arthur Gerald Boyle (26 July 1865 – 30 June 1912)
  4. Lady Caroline Elizabeth Boyle (c. 1870 – 4 December 1958)
  5. Admiral William Henry Dudley Boyle, 12th Earl of Cork (30 November 1873 – 19 April 1967)
  6. Evelyn Blanche Boyle (30 November 1873 – 29 June 1898)
  7. Captain Hon. Frederick John Boyle (4 July 1875 – 18 October 1955)
  8. Major Hon. Reginald Courtenay Boyle (22 November 1877 – 16 February 1946)

• Charles Spencer Canning Boyle, 10th Earl of Cork and Orrery (24 November 1861 – 25 March 1925)
• Rosalie de Villiers Gray Boyle ( – 15 March 1930)

• Admiral Ginger (William Henry Dudley) Boyle, 12th Earl of Cork (30 November 1873 – 19 April 1967)
• Lady Florence Cecilia Keppel (24 February 1871 – 30 June 1963)

Biographical Materials

1. Looked for Boyle, Orrery and Cork in the Irish Archives Resource, which doesn't seem to have anything for these people at the end of the 19th century.

Questions and Notes

1. While members of this extended family attended notable social events about this time, no other Boyle attended the Duchess of Devonshire's ball. Ginger (William Henry Dudley) Boyle — later Admiral and 12th Earl of Cork — could conceivably be this Mr. W. Boyle,
2. Mr. W. Boyle is probably not Lt.-Col. Hon. William George Boyle, who was granted the rank of an earl's younger son, which makes the honorific "Hon" rather than "Mr."; he attained his rank as Lieutenant-Colonel in the Coldstream Guards.