Boyle Lectures, the lectureship founded by the Hon. Robert Boyle in 1691, and held for a tenure of three years, the endowment being £50 per annum; the lecturer must deliver eight lectures in defence of Christianity, and some of the most eminent men have held the post.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Boyle, The Hon. Robert * Boyle's Law