Edmund Boyle, 7th Earl of Cork and 7th Earl of Orrery (21 November 1742 – 30 May 1798) was an Irish peer and Somerset landowner.
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A younger son of the 5th Earl of Cork and Margaret Hamilton, he succeeded to his half-brother's titles on 17 January 1764. He died, aged 56 in Marston House and was buried in St John's Church in Frome in Somerset.
On 31 August 1764, he married firstly Anne Courtenay (1742–1785), daughter and eventual heir of Kelland Courtenay (1707–1748). They had six children, including:
John Richard Boyle, Viscount Dungarvan (27 May 1765 – 8 March 1768)
General Edmund Boyle, 8th Earl of Cork (1767–1856)
Vice-Admiral Sir Courtenay Boyle (1770–1884)
Hon. Charles Boyle (1774–1800)
Lady Lucy Isabella Boyle (died 7 September 1801), married 28 July 1792 the Hon Rev George Bridgeman
The marriage was dissolved in 1782, and on 17 June 1786, he married secondly Mary Monckton, daughter of the 1st Viscount Galway: her salon was one of the centres of intellectual life in London for half a century.
