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Michael Boyle, Archbishop of Armagh (c. 1609 - 10 Dec 1702)

Archbishop of Armagh (from 1679) and Lord Chancellor of Ireland. He added greehouses and a formal garden at his country mansion in Blessington. He died at his house in Oxmantown, Dublin. Dictionary of National Biography entry: https://www.dib.ie/biography/boyle-michael-a0850 Other biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Boyle_(archbishop_of_Armagh) Relevant locations: Lived at or near Michael Boyle's house, Oxmantown
Title (royalty or holy order) Armagh, County Armagh
Linked Objects: Collector (minor) - forehead and horns [of a moose]
 References in Documents:
Selections from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (1665-1669)

Such a Forehead with Two extraordinary Beams of these Kind of Horns, may be now seen fastened against one side of the Common Hall of his Grace Michael Lord Archbishop of Ardmagh's House here in Dublin; they are both imperfect and want their Palmes, yet by the vast thickness and length of the Beams, I judge when entire they much exceeded the Size of those I have given the Dimensions of above. The Primate told me, they were found somewhere in the Province of Ulster, (497) and presented to the Earl of Essex, then Governor of Ireland, who gave them his Grace.