Robert
Boyle-Walsingham
formerly Boyle
Born about [location unknown]
Ancestors 
Son of Henry Boyle MP LLD
and Henrietta Boyle
Husband of
Charlotte Hanbury-Williams
— married
1759 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Died
at about age 43
in Jamaica`
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Biography
Hon. Robert Boyle-Walsingham (1736-1780) was the son of Henry Boyle, 1st Earl of Shannon and Lady Henrietta Boyle. He married Charlotte Hanbury-Williams, daughter of Sir Charles Hanbury-Williams and Lady Frances Coningsby, in 1759.
Child of Hon. Robert Boyle-Walsingham and Charlotte Hanbury-Williams:
- Charlotte Boyle, Baroness de Ros of Helmsley b. 24 May 1769, d. 9 Jan 1831
Robert was lost on the "Thunderer" near Jamaica. West Indies
b. Mar. 1736, 5th s. of Henry, 1st Earl of Shannon [I] by his 2nd w. Lady Harriet Boyle, da. of Charles, 2nd Earl of Burlington [GB] and 3rd Earl of Cork [I]. m. 17 July 1759, Charlotte, da. and coh. of Sir Charles Hanbury Williams, 1s. 1da.
Lt. R.N. 1756; cdr. Feb. 1757; capt. June 1757.
M.P. [I] 1758-68.
Walsingham—the name was assumed between 1758 and 1761—throughout his political life was connected with the Cavendish family, to whom he was related by the marriage of his kinswoman Lady Charlotte Boyle to the 4th Duke of Devonshire. Soon after he came of age he was returned MP for Knaresborough, a pocket borough which Lady Charlotte had brought into the Devonshire family.
Walsingham served on an expedition to Martinique in 1762,
Walsingham commanded a ship in Admiral Keppel’s fleet which fought the indecisive battle with the French off Ushant in July 1778.
Sources
See also:
1. Add. 32904, f. 392; 32924, f. 54. 2. Albemarle, Rockingham Mems. ii. 220. 3. Walpole, Mems. Geo. III, iii. 207. 4. Almon, i. 179. 5. Fortescue, iv. 226. 6. Sandwich Pprs. ii. 209. 7. Almon, xi. 135. 8. Sandwich Pprs. ii. 229; iii. 92. 9. Almon, xii. 306. 10. Walsingham mss, PRO N. Ire.
- WALSINGHAM (formerly BOYLE), Hon. Robert (1736-80), of Gainsborough, Lincs., published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1754-1790, ed. L. Namier, J. Brooke., 1964
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