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11. Henry, afterwards Earl of Carlisle; 2. The Honourable Charles Howard; 3. Lady Elizabeth; 4. Lady Anne, who died in infancy; 5. Lady Anne.

the Gentlemen of his Majesty's Bedchamber, and Deputy Earl Marshal during the minority of the Duke of Norfolk, being so constituted on February 12th, of the ensuing year, 13th William III. In that reign he was also Commissioner of the Treasury, Governor of the town and castle of Carlisle, Vice-Admiral of the sea-coasts adjacent, and sworn one of the Privy Council on June 19th, 1701, when he visited the King at Loo, and returned to England October 1st of the same year.

On the accession of Queen Anne, his Lordship was constituted Earl Marshal; and, on June 24th following, was appointed Lord-Lieutenant of the counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland. He was also one of her Privy Council; and in 1706, one of the commissioners to treat with the Scotch about a union between the two kingdoms.

His Lordship died at Bath on May 1st, 1738, and was buried at Castle Howard. By his lady, Anne Capel, daughter of Arthur, first Earl of Essex, he left two sons and three daughters.1 Anne, Countess of Carlisle, survived her lord many years, and died a widow in 1752, at the advanced age of seventy-eight years.

1 Lady Dorothy; 2. Lady Juliana; 3. Lady Charlotte.

"In the eighteenth stall of St. George's Chapel, Windsor, is a plate of his arms, bearing the following inscription:

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"Du très noble et puissant Seigneur, Richard Boyle, Compte de Burlington, et aussi de Cork, Visconte de Dungarvan et Kinalmeaky en Ireland, Baron Clifford de Londesburgh, et aussi Baron Boyle de Youghall et Baron de Bandon en Ireland, grand trésorier d'Ireland, seigneur lieutenant et garde des rolles de l'occidental Riding de York, seigneur lieutenant de la cité, province ou aynsté de York, vice admiral de Yorkshire, gardes des rolles du septentrional Riding de Yorkshire, gouveneur en chef de la province de Cork, connestable et sénéchal du chateau, seigneurie et de l'honneur de Knaresburgh, conseiller du Ruj en son conseil privé; chevalier du très noble ordre de la jarettiere installé au chateau de Windesor le jour de 18 Juin 1730.'

Richard Boyle,

EARL OF BURLINGTON.

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ICHARD BOYLE, third Earl of Burlington, celebrated for his munificent patronage of the authors and artists of his day, was born on April 26th, 1695.

In 1720-1 he married the Lady Dorothy Savile, eldest of the two daughters and co-heirs of William Savile, Marquis of Halifax, and by her (who died in 1758) he had three daughters.1

In 1730, his Lordship was installed one of the Knights Companions of the most noble order of the Garter,' and in the following year he was constituted Captain of the Band of Gentlemen Pensioners.

His Lordship was famous for his skill in architecture, and planned as well as otherwise assisted in the erection of several public edifices.

The Earl of Burlington died at Chiswick on December 3rd, 1753, and his remains were carried to Lunesburgh, where they were interred. In him the English honours became extinct; but his Lordship's titles in Ireland devolved upon his heir male, the Right Honourable John, Earl of Cork and Orrery, &c.

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