Life
1707-1762 [5th Earl of Cork and Orrery]; b. 2 Jan.; many works in prose
including Remarks on the Life and Writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift (1752); also Letters of Pliny the Younger
(1751), undertaken as ‘the amusement of my leisures hours’.
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Works
A Poem Sacred to the Memory of Edmund Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham (London
1736); The First Ode of the First Book of Horace, imitated by J.B.
(1741); Pyrrha [...] The Fifth Ode of the First Book of Horace
(Dublin 1741), folio; Praehonorabili Domini ... [Latin verses eulogistic
of Prince Charles Edward Stuart and Flora MacDonald 1749 MS]; trans. Letters
of Letters Pliny the Younger (Dublin 1751); Remarks on the life
and writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift ... In a series of letters from John
Earl of Orrery, to his son, the Honourable Hamilton Boyle (; London:
A Millar; Dublin: George Faulkner 1752) [prev. in The Monthly Review,
Nov. 1751].
Letters from Italy in the Years 1754 and 1755 by [...] Late John Earl of Corke & Orrery, with Explanatory Notes by John Duncombe (1st ed. 1773), xlvi, 267pp.; Emily Charlotte Orrery [Countess of Cork and Orrery], ed., The Orrery Papers, 2 vols. (London 1903).
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British Library holds [1] Remarks on the life and writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift ... In a series of letters from John Earl of Orrery, to his son, the Honourable Hamilton Boyle. Dublin: printed by George Faulkner ..., 1752. [6], 204, [12]pp., [1] leaf of plates, ports (12o); 18cm ... [2] Remarks on the Life and Writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift ... in a Series of Letters from John Earl of Orrery, to his Son, etc. [Another copy.] Remarks on the Life and Writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift, etc. F.P. The third edition, corrected. [Another copy.] The fourth edition. [Another copy.] The fifth edition. 339pp. Printed by George Faulkner: Dublin, 1752. 8o.. Dublin, 1752. 8o.. 214pp. A. Miller: London, 1752. 8o. 321pp.. A. Millar: London, 1752. 8o.. 240pp. A. Millar: London, 1752. 12o. [3] Remarks on the Life and Writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick’s, Dublin, in a series of letters from John Earl of Orrery to his son, the Honourable Hamilton Boyle. With a portrait of Swift after Benjamin Wilson. [Another copy.] The second edition corrected. 339 pp. A. Millar: London, 1752. 8o. London, 1752. 8o.. 214 pp. A. Millar: London, 1752. 8o. [4] A Letter to the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Clogher, in Ireland, occasioned by his Lordship’s Essay on Spirit. To which is added, a letter to the Right Honourable John Earl of Orrery, occasioned by the character which his Lordship gives of Dean Swift’s Sermon on the Trinity, in his remarks on the life and writings of the Dean. [By Richard Moseley.] [Another copy.]. 59pp. J. Noon: London, 1752. 8o. [5] An Epistle [in verse] from the Hon. R- E- [i.e. Richard Edgcumbe] to his dear Nanny [Day]. To which is added, A Satire [in verse] on L-d O-y’s [i.e. Lord Orrery’s] Remarks on the life and writings of Dean S-ft [i.e. Swift. By C. Jones]. MS. notes [by Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford].. London, 1752. fol. [6] Some remarks on the life and writings of Dr. J- H- [Sir John Hill], Inspector-General of Great Britain. In a series of Letters from a Gentleman in Town to his Friend in the Country. With occasional hints relative to a Parallel Performance of a certain noble Earl [John Boyle, Earl of Orrery.] [Another copy.] [Another copy.]. London, 1752. 8o. [7] Letter II. from a gentleman in the country to his son in the College of Dublin. Relating to the memoirs of the life and writings of Doctor Swift Dean of St. Patrick’s. Ascribed to the Right Honourable the Earl of Orrery. Dublin: printed by Oli[ver] Nelson, 1752. 27-52 pp. 8o. [8] Observations upon Lord Orrery’s Remarks on the Life and Writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift [by J. R., i.e. Patrick Delany], containing several singular anecdotes relating to the character and conduct of that great Genius and ... Stella; ... to which are added Two original pieces of the same author never before publish’d. (A Treatise on good manners and good breeding: Verses to a friend who has been abused in many libels.) [Another copy.]. London, 1754. 8o; Remarks on the life and writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift ... In a series of letters from John Earl of Orrery, to his son, the Honourable Hamilton Boyle (Dublin: printed by George Faulkner 1752), [6], 204, [12]pp., [1] leaf of plates, ports, 12o; Remarks on the Life and Writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift [… &c.; third edition, corr.]; Do., fourth edition; Do., fifth edition (Dublin: George Faulkner 1752), 214pp., 8o. Do. (London: A. Millar 1752), 240pp., 8o.; Do. (London: A. Millar: 1752), 12o.; Remarks on the Life and Writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick’s, Dublin, in a series of letters from John Earl of Orrery to his son, the Honourable Hamilton Boyle. With a portrait of Swift after Benjamin Wilson (London: A. Millar 1752), 214pp., 8o.
Belfast Public Library lists Boyle, J., On the Works of Swift (1752).
Hyland Books (214) lists Letters from Italy in the Years 1754 and 1755 by ... Late John Earl of Corke & Orrery, with Explanatory Notes by John Duncombe (1st ed. 1773), xlvi, 267pp.
Bibl. var.: Publication date of 1752 for Remarks on the Life
of and Writings of Swift listed in Charles A. Read, The Cabinet
of Irish Literature (London, Glasgow, Dublin, Belfast & Edinburgh:
Blackie & Son [1876-78]) listed var. 1751 Oxford Companion of English
Literature, ed. Margaret Drabble (OUP: 1985) and Dictionary
of National Biography.
Own copy: Lord Orrery’s own copy of Remarks on the Life and Writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift (1751) came into the hands of Sir Harold Williams and passed to the Cambridge Library at his death in 1964 and includes annotations by the author conveying additional information on the subject. The book was formerly in the possession of Lord Cork, as Henry Craik averred in 1882. (See Joao Froes, ‘The Cambridge Copy … [&c]’, in Swift Studies, 11 (1996), pp.16-24.
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)