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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.
Everything about Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery →- 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