John Boyle, 15th Earl of Cork

Lieutenant Commander The Right Honourable The Earl of Cork and Orrery
Official parliamentary portrait, 2017

Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
as an elected hereditary peer 19 July 2016
By-election	July 2016
Preceded by	The 2nd Baron Bridges

Personal details
Born	John Richard Boyle (1945-11-03) 3 November 1945 (age 78)
Political party	Crossbench
Spouse	Rebecca Juliet Noble

Military career
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	Royal Navy
Years of service	1965–1979
Rank	Lieutenant Commander
Commands held	HMS Sealion

John Richard Boyle, 15th Earl of Cork and 15th Earl of Orrery (born 3 November 1945) is a British hereditary peer and a member of the House of Lords, where he sits as a Crossbencher. Boyle was an officer in the Royal Navy and then had a career in the sugar industry before inheriting his titles in 2003.

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Royal Navy

Boyle entered the Royal Navy and graduated from Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. In 1976, as a Lieutenant-Commander, he was given the command of HMS Sealion but retired from the Royal Navy in 1979 and went to work in the sugar industry.^[1]

Politics

Boyle was first styled as Viscount Dungarvan as a courtesy title from 1995 following his father inheriting the earldoms. He inherited the title of Earl of Cork and Orrery following the death of his father, John Boyle, 14th Earl of Cork on 14 November 2003.^[1] He was elected to sit in the House of Lords at a crossbench hereditary peers' by-election in July 2016, following Lord Bridges ceasing to be a member of the House owing to his non-attendance of the House,^[2] a provision that was created following the passage of the House of Lords Reform Act 2014.^[3] He defeated Richard Hubert Gordon Gilbey, 12th Baron Vaux of Harrowden by 15 votes to 8 in a vote of all sitting crossbench hereditary peers.^[4] Though his Irish titles came from the Peerage of Ireland, which does not make him eligible for election, he also holds the title of Baron Boyle of Marston in the Peerage of Great Britain^[1] which allowed him to stand in the by-election for hereditary peers.^[5] In the House of Lords, he is referred to by his higher ranking Irish titles as Earl of Cork and Orrery despite being elected via his barony.^[5]

Personal life

The Earl of Cork and Orrery was educated at Harrow School.^[1] He is married to Rebecca Juliet née Noble, daughter of Michael Noble, Baron Glenkinglas.^[1] They have three children; an elder daughter Lady Cara Willoughby and twins Lady Davina Knight and Rory, Viscount Dungarvan.^[6]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "John Richard Boyle, 15th Earl of Cork". The Peerage. 1 November 2006. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
^ "Lord Bridges". UK Parliament. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
^ "House of Lords Reform Act 2014". Legislation.gov.uk. 15 May 2014. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
^ "Crossbench hereditary peers' by-election, July 2016" (PDF).
^ ^a ^b "The Peerage of Ireland". Cracroft's peerage. Archived from the original on 26 January 2017. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
^ "Person Page". www.thepeerage.com.

Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by John Boyle	Earl of Cork 2003–present	Incumbent
Preceded by John Boyle	Earl of Orrery 2003–present	Incumbent
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by The Lord Bridges	Elected hereditary peer to the House of Lords under the House of Lords Act 1999 Sat as Baron Boyle of Marston 2016–present	Incumbent

Current earls in the peerages of Britain and Ireland

Sorted by (historical) entity at time of grant

King George III	Peter St Clair-Erskine, 7th Earl of Rosslyn Benjamin Craven, 9th Earl of Craven Rupert Onslow, 8th Earl of Onslow Julian Marsham, 8th Earl of Romney John Pelham, 9th Earl of Chichester Francis Grosvenor, 8th Earl of Wilton John Herbert, 8th Earl of Powis Simon Nelson, 10th Earl Nelson Philip Kent Grey, 7th Earl Grey William Lowther, 9th Earl of Lonsdale Conroy Ryder, 8th Earl of Harrowby
Prince Regent	David Lascelles, 8th Earl of Harewood Timothy Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 7th Earl of Minto Charles Cathcart, 7th Earl Cathcart John Grimston, 7th Earl of Verulam Albert Eliot, 11th Earl of St Germans Mark Parker, 7th Earl of Morley Richard Bridgeman, 7th Earl of Bradford
King George IV	John Scott, 6th Earl of Eldon Frederick Curzon, 7th Earl Howe Keith Rous, 6th Earl of Stradbroke James Temple-Gore-Langton, 9th Earl Temple of Stowe Colin Campbell, 7th Earl Cawdor
King William IV	Thomas Anson, 6th Earl of Lichfield Edward Lambton, 7th Earl of Durham Fergus Leveson-Gower, 6th Earl Granville Edward Howard, 8th Earl of Effingham David Moreton, 7th Earl of Ducie Charles Pelham, 8th Earl of Yarborough
Queen Victoria	Thomas Coke, 8th Earl of Leicester Anthony Noel, 6th Earl of Gainsborough William Byng, 9th Earl of Strafford Mark Pepys, 9th Earl of Cottenham Graham Wellesley, 8th Earl Cowley David Ward, 5th Earl of Dudley Hugh Montgomerie, 7th Earl of Winton John Russell, 7th Earl Russell John Mackenzie, 5th Earl of Cromartie John Wodehouse, 5th Earl of Kimberley Richard Wortley, 5th Earl of Wharncliffe Simon Cairns, 6th Earl Cairns John Lytton, 5th Earl of Lytton William Palmer, 5th Earl of Selborne John Northcote, 5th Earl of Iddesleigh Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 5th Earl of Cranbrook
King Edward VII	Evelyn Baring, 4th Earl of Cromer Ivor Windsor-Clive, 4th Earl of Plymouth Edward Foljambe, 5th Earl of Liverpool
King George V	Neil Primrose, 3rd Earl of Midlothian Michael Hicks Beach, 3rd Earl St Aldwyn David Beatty, 3rd Earl Beatty Alexander Haig, 3rd Earl Haig Edward Guinness, 4th Earl of Iveagh Roderick Balfour, 5th Earl of Balfour Raymond Asquith, 3rd Earl of Oxford and Asquith Patrick Jellicoe, 3rd Earl Jellicoe Peter Mackay, 4th Earl of Inchcape William Peel, 3rd Earl Peel
King George VI	Simon Bowes-Lyon, 6th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne Benedict Baldwin, 5th Earl Baldwin of Bewdley Peter Wood, 3rd Earl of Halifax Brer Ruthven, 3rd Earl of Gowrie David Lloyd George, 4th Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor Norton Knatchbull, 3rd Earl Mountbatten of Burma
Queen Elizabeth II	Shane Alexander, 2nd Earl Alexander of Tunis Mark Cunliffe-Lister, 4th Earl of Swinton John Attlee, 3rd Earl Attlee Simon Marquis, 3rd Earl of Woolton David Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of Snowdon Alexander Macmillan, 2nd Earl of Stockton

Italics in entries mean the peer also holds a previously listed earldom of higher precedence

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