Boyle, Robert family

Robert Boyle was born in 1627, the youngest son of a large upper-class English family with significant landholdings in Ireland and ties to both sides of the English Civil War (1642-1651). Boyle s literary and religious interests... 

Robert Boyle (1627-1691) was born in Ireland to a wealthy family, educated at Eton, received further education on the Continent, and returned to England in 1645. He began his scientific studies during the following decade and in 1656 moved to Oxford, where he secured the assistance of Robert Hooke. Hooke built a vacuum pump (Figure 145) for Boyle, who used it for numerous studies, including study of the relationship between volume and pressure of gas that now bears his name (see p. 210). Boyle is generally considered to be the Father of Chemistry due in part to his gas law and other physical studies but also because of his... 

It is also plain from his ample citations that Plot saw himself as part of a great Oxford chemical tradition, mentioning as he does Hooke, Mayow, Willis, and the Honorable Robert Boyle Esq. the Glory of his Nation and Pride of his Family , who had, in his own study of Oxfordshire waters, used Syrup of Violets as an early acid-alkali indicator. Then in November 1689, upon marrying, Robert Plot retired from the Chemistry Chair and left Oxford. He was succeeded to the post by Sir Edward Hannes, a medical man, who like so many seventeenth-century Oxford scientists (and most notably Robert Hooke) had followed the road from Westminster School to Christ Church. ... 

Robert Boyle was bom to a noble family of vacillating fortunes. His father had gone to colonize southwestern Ireland in the 1500s and had become rich and influential. He lost his property in a rebellion... 

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