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- Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery KT PC FRS (28 July 1674 – 28 August 1731) was an English nobleman, the second son of Roger, the 2nd Earl. He was born at Chelsea and educated at Christ Church, Oxford, and soon distinguished himself by his learning and abilities. Like the first earl, he was an author, soldier and statesman. He translated Plutarch's life of Lysander, and published an edition of the epistles of Phalaris, which engaged him in the famous controversy with Bentley. He was a member of the Irish Parliament and sat for Charleville between 1695 and 1699. He was three times member for the town of Huntingdon; and on the death of his brother, Lionel, 3rd earl, in 1703, he succeeded to the title. He entered the army, and in 1709 was raised to the rank of major-general, and sworn one of Her Majesty's Privy Council. He was awarded the Order of the Thistle and appointed queen's envoy to the states of Brabant and Flanders; and having discharged this trust with ability, he was created an English peer, as Baron Boyle of Marston, in Somerset. He inherited the estate in 1714. Boyle became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1706. In 1713, under the patronage of Boyle, clockmaker George Graham created the first mechanical solar system model that could demonstrate proportional motion of the planets around the Sun. The device was named the orrery in the Earl's honor. Charles Boyle received several additional honours in the reign of George I; but having had the misfortune to fall under the suspicion of the government as a Jacobite he was committed to the Tower in 1722, where he remained six months, and was then admitted to bail. On a subsequent inquiry it was found impossible to incriminate him, and he was discharged. Boyle wrote a comedy, As you find it, printed in 1703 and later published together with the plays of the first earl. In 1728, he was listed as one of the subscribers to the Cyclopaedia of Ephraim Chambers. Boyle died at his house in Westminster in 1731 and was buried in Westminster Abbey. He bequeathed his personal library and collection of scientific instruments to Christ Church Library; the instruments are now on display in the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford. His son John, the 5th Earl of Orrery, succeeded to the earldom of Cork on the failure of the elder branch of the Boyle family, as earl of Cork and Orrery.
- Charles Boyle, né le 28 juillet 1674 à Chelsea, et décédé le 28 août 1731 à Londres, 4 comte d'Orrery, fut un général d'armée, noble et écrivain britannique. Il était le petit-neveu du scientifique Robert Boyle. Il se distingua dans les armes et dans les lettres, et donna une savante édition des Lettres de Phalaris, Oxford, 1718. C'est de son nom qu'on a nommé Orrery une machine astronomique représentant le système planétaire, qui lui avait été dédiée par l'inventeur, l'horloger George Graham. Charles Boyle est devenu membre de la Royal Society le 3 avril 1706.
- Charles Boyle, 4. hrabia Orrery (1674-1731) Angielski arystokrata. Czwarty hrabia Orrery zrobił takze karierę w armii i na polu literatury. W wojsku został generałem - majorem piechoty. W roku 1711 był brytyjskim pełnomocnikiem na rokowaniach konferencji w Brukseli. W latach 1711-13 był brytyjskim posłem w Holandii, funkcje oficjalnego ambasadora pełnił jednak wówczas Thomas Wentworth, 1. hrabia Strafford (1672-1739).
- Charles Boyle, 4:e earl av Orrery, född den 28 juli 1676, död den 28 augusti 1731, sonson till Roger Boyle, 1:e earl av Orrery, far till John Boyle, 5:e earl av Cork, var en brittisk militär och diplomat. Orrery blev som ung student beryktad genom sin häftiga litterära strid med filologen Bentley om de så kallade Falarisbreven. Orrery ingick sedermera på den militära banan och blev 1709 generalmajor, deltog i de diplomatiska förhandlingarna före Utrecht-freden och hölls 1721 en tid fängslad såsom misstänkt för jakobitiska stämplingar. Ett av hans skyddsling George Graham uppfunnet astronomiskt instrument fick till hans ära namnet orrery.
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- Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery KT PC FRS (28 July 1674 – 28 August 1731) was an English nobleman, the second son of Roger, the 2nd Earl. He was born at Chelsea and educated at Christ Church, Oxford, and soon distinguished himself by his learning and abilities. Like the first earl, he was an author, soldier and statesman. He translated Plutarch's life of Lysander, and published an edition of the epistles of Phalaris, which engaged him in the famous controversy with Bentley.
- Charles Boyle, né le 28 juillet 1674 à Chelsea, et décédé le 28 août 1731 à Londres, 4 comte d'Orrery, fut un général d'armée, noble et écrivain britannique. Il était le petit-neveu du scientifique Robert Boyle. Il se distingua dans les armes et dans les lettres, et donna une savante édition des Lettres de Phalaris, Oxford, 1718.
- Charles Boyle, 4. hrabia Orrery (1674-1731) Angielski arystokrata. Czwarty hrabia Orrery zrobił takze karierę w armii i na polu literatury. W wojsku został generałem - majorem piechoty. W roku 1711 był brytyjskim pełnomocnikiem na rokowaniach konferencji w Brukseli. W latach 1711-13 był brytyjskim posłem w Holandii, funkcje oficjalnego ambasadora pełnił jednak wówczas Thomas Wentworth, 1. hrabia Strafford (1672-1739).
- Charles Boyle, 4:e earl av Orrery, född den 28 juli 1676, död den 28 augusti 1731, sonson till Roger Boyle, 1:e earl av Orrery, far till John Boyle, 5:e earl av Cork, var en brittisk militär och diplomat. Orrery blev som ung student beryktad genom sin häftiga litterära strid med filologen Bentley om de så kallade Falarisbreven.
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