Richard Boyle

Richard Boyle may refer to:

  • Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork (1566–1643), Lord High Treasurer of Ireland
  • Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Burlington and 2nd Earl of Cork (1612–1698), Lord High Treasurer of Ireland and a cavalier
  • Richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount Shannon (1675–1740), British military officer and statesman
  • Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington and 4th earl of Cork (1694–1753)
  • Richard Boyle, 2nd Earl of Shannon (1727–1807), Irish peer and Member of Parliament
  • Richard Boyle, 4th Earl of Shannon (1809–1868)
  • Richard Boyle, 9th Earl of Cork (1829–1904), British politician
  • Richard Boyle, 6th Earl of Shannon (1860–1906), politician in Canada's Northwest Territories
  • Richard Boyle (bishop) (c. 1574–1644), Archbishop of Tuam
  • Richard Boyle (rower) (1888–1953), British rower; medallist at the 1908 Summer Olympics
  • Richard Boyle (canoeist) (born 1961), New Zealand sprint canoeist
  • Richard Boyle (MP) (died 1665), MP for County Cork

Famous quotes containing the words richard and/or boyle:

    “See, see, King Richard doth himself appear,
    As doth the blushing discontented sun
    From out the fiery portal of the east.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Logic, reason, disease, and the menace of death, these things meant nothing at all to us. We were committed to other values by which the poet has always lived in defiance of all that society demanded of him.”
    —Kay Boyle (1903–1993)