John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork and 5th Earl of Orrery, FRS

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 (13 January 1707 – 16 November 1762) was a writer

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 and a friend of Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift

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, Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope

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 and Samuel Johnson

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The only son of Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery

Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery

Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery KT PC FRS was an English nobleman, statesman and patron of the sciences....

, and his wife Lady Elizabeth Cecil (1687–1708), daughter of John Cecil, 6th Earl of Exeter

John Cecil, 6th Earl of Exeter

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. He was born at Westminster

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 and attended Christ Church, Oxford

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. He published a translation of the letters of Pliny the Younger

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 in 1751, and Remarks on the Life and Writings of Jonathan Swift in the same year, and the Memoirs of Robert Carey, 1st Earl of Monmouth

Robert Carey, 1st Earl of Monmouth

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. His Letters from Italy was published in 1774 by J. Duncombe

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He was married twice, and succeeded as Earl of Cork

Earl of Cork

Earl of the County of Cork, usually shortened to Earl of Cork, is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1620 for the Anglo-Irish politician Richard Boyle, 1st Baron Boyle...

 by his son Hamilton

Hamilton Boyle, 6th Earl of Cork and Orrery

Hamilton Boyle, 6th Earl of Cork and 6th Earl of Orrery was the son of John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork and Henrietta Douglas...

, who died in 1764 and passed the earldom to John's next son, Edmund

Edmund Boyle, 7th Earl of Cork

Edmund Boyle, 7th Earl of Cork and 7th Earl of Orrery was an Irish peer.A younger son of the 5th Earl of Cork and Margaret Hamilton, he succeeded to his half-brother's titles in 1764...

. Elizabeth, one of his daughters by his first wife, married Sir Thomas Worsley, 6th Baronet, and one of their children was Sir Richard Worsley, 7th Baronet

Sir Richard Worsley, 7th Baronet

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