BOYLE, RICHARD, Earl of Burlington and Cork, son of the former, was a nobleman of unblemished loyalty in troubled times, and of untainted integrity in a period of the greatest corruption. He was born at Youghal in October 1612, while his father was in the beginning of
his career, being then only Sir Richard Boyle; and he distinguished himself by his loyalty to King Charles I. He not only commanded troops, but raised, and, for a long time, paid them, continuing to wait upon the king as long as any place held out for him in England; and it was only in the last extremity he was forced to compound for his estate. He contributed all in his power to the Restoration; on which King Charles II. raised him to the dignity of Earl of Burlington or Bridlington, in the county of York, in the year 1663. He died in January 1697-8, in the eighty-sixth year of his age.