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He was the first Earl of Cork. He paid for a monument in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, that was built in the 1630s. WHS visited the monument during his travels in 1833 and he described it as one of the "curious and  grotesque ancient monuments. One erected to the memory of Richard Boyle Earl of Cork contains 16 figures intended to be statues of the Earl and his wife and family but in reality almost as wide as the carving of the Indians. The Earl and his wife are represented as laying ^lying^ side by side most lovingly in death on their own monument. while their children also dead stand weeping over them."

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He was the first Earl of Cork. He paid for a monument in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, that was built in the 1630s. WHS visited the monument during his travels in 1833 and he described it as one of the "curious and grotesque ancient monuments. One erected to the memory of Richard Boyle Earl of Cork contains 16 figures intended to be statues of the Earl and his wife and family but in reality almost as wide as the carving of the Indians. The Earl and his wife are represented as laying ^lying^ side by side most lovingly in death on their own monument. while their children also dead stand weeping over them."
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https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=44820972 AND https://www.geni.com/people/Richard-Boyle-1st-Earl-of-Cork/6000000003370237429
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https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=44820972 AND https://www.geni.com/people/Richard-Boyle-1st-Earl-of-Cork/6000000003370237429