John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork

John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork and 5th Earl of Orrery, FRS (13 January 1707 – 16 November 1762) was an Anglo-Irish writer and a friend of Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope and Samuel Johnson.

He was born at Westminster and attended Christ Church, Oxford.

In 1743, he was one of several leading Tories who communicated with the French government through Francis Sempill in order to elicit French support for an invasion to restore the Stuart line.

He published a translation of the letters of Pliny the Younger in 1751, Remarks on the Life and Writings of Jonathan Swift in the same year, and the Memoirs of Robert Carey, 1st Earl of Monmouth.

Their daughter Lucy (b.1744) married George Byng, 4th Viscount Torrington.

The Earl of Cork.
Letters from Italy, in the years 1754 and 1755 (1773)
Arms of the 5th Earl of Orrery