The Lord Carleton | |
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| Lord President of the Council | |
| In office 25 June 1721 – 27 March 1725 | |
| Monarch | George I |
| Preceded by | Viscount Townshend |
| Succeeded by | The Duke of Devonshire |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 12 July 1669 |
| Died | 14 March 1725(1725-03-14) (aged 55) |
| Education | Westminster School |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
Henry Boyle, 1st Baron Carleton,PC (12 July 1669 – 14 March 1725)[1] was anAnglo-Irish Whig politician who sat in theIrish House of Commons from 1692 to 1695 and in theEnglish andBritish House of Commons between 1689 and 1710. He served as Chancellor of the Exchequer and Secretary of State, and after he was raised to the peerage asBaron Carleton, served as Lord President of the council.
Boyle was the son ofCharles Boyle, 3rd Viscount Dungarvan, and his first wife Lady Jane Seymour, daughter of William Seymour. He was educated atWestminster School and travelled abroad from 1685 to 1688, attendingPadua University in 1685.[2] He entered the army under the auspices of his uncle, theTory politicianLord Rochester. However, Boyle himself became aWhig, and in 1688 deserted the army ofJames II in favour of thePrince of Orange.
In 1689, he was electedMember of Parliament forTamworth, but was defeated the next year.[3] He spent the next two years inIreland managing the family estates and representedCounty Cork in theIrish House of Commons in 1692. Also in 1692, he was returned as MP forCambridge University at a by election on 21 November 1692, having been admitted atTrinity College, Cambridge on 9 November, and was awarded MA in 1693.[4] He became a prominent spokesman of the "country" opposition, but in 1697 he switched to the court party. Here he advanced quickly, becoming aLord of the Treasury in 1699 andChancellor of the Exchequer of England in 1701.[2]
Boyle picked up other offices during his career, becomingLord Lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire andLord Treasurer of Ireland in 1704, and was elected member forWestminster at the1705 English general election. With the departure ofHarley and his followers from the government, Boyle becameSecretary of State for the Northern Department and Lord TreasurerGodolphin's principal lieutenant in the Commons. His and Godolphin's dominance in the ministry was increasingly overshadowed by the power of theJunto of Whig aristocrats, however, and in 1710 he retired from office and withdrew from politics with the arrival of Harley's newTory ministry.
With theHanoverian succession in 1714, Boyle was raised to thepeerage asBaron Carleton, and becameLord President in 1721, an office in which he continued until his death in 1725.
Carlton Way, a road in northCambridge that follows the path of the RomanAkeman Street, and the public house The Carlton Arms on the same road, are named after him.[5]
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