Cork, Richard Boyle, 1st earl Of

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Boyle, Richard, 1st earl Of Cork - 1566–1643, English settler in Ireland. He first went to Ireland in 1588 and in 1602 purchased for a small sum Sir Walter Raleigh's large landholdings in Cork, Waterford, and Tipperary. His energy...