Edmund Boyle, 8th Earl of Cork

General Edmund Boyle, 8th Earl of Cork and Orrery KP (21 October 1767 – 29 June 1856), styled Viscount Dungarvan from 1768 to 1798, was an Irish soldier and peer. He became Earl of Cork and Orrery in 1798 on the death of his father Edmund Boyle, 7th Earl of Cork and was appointed a Knight of the Order of St Patrick on 22 July 1835.. His mother was Anne daughter of Kelland Courtenay by Elizabeth, sister to John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich.

He married (1795) his first cousin Isabella-Henrietta, daughter of William Poyntz of Midgham (1734-1809) by Isabella (d.1805), daughter and eventual co-heiress of Kelland Courtney of Painsford, in Ashprington, Devon (Kelland Courtenay's father had married one of the three co-heiresses of John Kelland (d.1712), before that Painsford was with the Somaster family), and Trethurfe, Cornwall, distant scion of John Courtenay (of Tremere) (Tremeer)).

Meanwhile, Lord Cork's younger brother, Vice-Admiral Sir Courtenay Boyle (1770-1844), KCH, married (1799) his sister-in-law and first cousin, Carolina-Amelia Poyntz (d.1851).

Isabella-Henrietta and Carolina-Amelia's brother, and thus Lord Cork's brother-in-law, was the MP William Stephen Poyntz.

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Edmund Boyle, 8th Earl of Cork