Richard Boyle (c. 1574–1645) was an English bishop who became Archbishop of Tuam in the Church of Ireland.
He was the second son of Michael Boyle (died 2 February 1597), merchant in London, and his wife Jane (baptised 17 January 1548), daughter and co-heiress of William Peacock.
[4] He held the vicarage of Finedon in Northamptonshire before embarking on a Church of Ireland ecclesiastical career.
[2] He became warden of Youghal on 24 February 1603, dean of Waterford on 10 May 1603 (until 1620),[1] and dean of Tuam in May 1604,[2] Archdeacon of Limerick on 8 May 1605, and bishop of Cork, Cloyne, and Ross on 22 August 1620, these three preferments being obtained through the interest of his cousin, Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, with whom he later quarrelled.
On the outbreak of the Irish Rebellion of 1641, he retired with Dr. John Maxwell, bishop of Killala, and others, to Galway for protection, where, when the town rose in arms against the garrison, his life was preserved through the influence of Ulick Burke, Earl of Clanricarde.