Boyle, Richard, first and great Earl of Cork, distinguished among Irish patriots and landlords for what he did to improve his estates and develop manufactures and the mechanical arts in Ireland, also for the honours conferred upon him for his patriotism; when Cromwell saw how his estates were managed he remarked, that had there been one like him in every province in Ireland rebellion would have been impossible (1566‒1643).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Boyle, Charles * Boyle, The Hon. Robert