Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, English soldier and politician (died 1679)

Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery

Anglo-Irish soldier and politician (1621–1679)

Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, 25 April 1621 to 16 October 1679, was an Anglo-Irish soldier and politician. A younger son of the Earl of Cork, the largest landowner in Munster, like many Irish Protestants he supported the Dublin Castle administration during the Irish…