Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery

About Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery

Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery 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 Confederate Wars, a related conflict of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.

Occupation

writer, playwright, politician

Position held

Member of Parliament in the Parliament of England, Member of the Privy Council of Ireland, Member of the Second Protectorate Parliament, Member of the First Protectorate Parliament

Citizenship

Kingdom of England

Born

April 25, 1621

Died

October 16, 1679