Robert Boyle

The youngest of Mary's brothers, Robert Boyle , won great fame as a scientist, and was also an interesting creative writer.

The Honourable Sir Courtenay Boyle , MB 's father, the second surviving son of Edmund, seventh Earl of Cork and Orrery , was a Vice-Admiral. One of his postss was commissioner of the dockyards...

In DublinKP made an important new circle of friends centred on the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, James Butler, Duke of Ormond . They included the politician and playwright Roger Boyle, Earl of Orrery (even...

DM 's friends also included Lady Ranelagh , whose ODNB entry calls her the leading woman intellectual of her generation, and who provides a rare trace of Masham's mostly invisible...

Her health problems extended her acquaintance among physicians, many of whom visited her at Ragley. She consulted the Irish healer Valentine Greatrakes . Medical men who knew her and wrote about her case included Ezekiel Foxcroft

Samuel Johnson , in his review of Elizabeth Harrison 's Miscellanies on Moral and Religious Subjects, in Prose and Verse, written for the Literary Magazine, or Universal Review in October 1756, went out of...

The volume nicely mixes the personal and political. SF shows daring in expressions of love and of refusal to accept conventional restraints of all kinds. She reprints all four of her poems on Dryden 's...

MD had apparently finished this poem in draft by 1782. It was dedicated to Lord Aldborough . Subscribers included George Crabbe , Richard Graves , Jonas Hanway , Dr Robert Lowth , Hannah More ...