Cavendish Boyle

Known as Cavendish Boyle, he was born in Barbados into an ancient Irish family, the son of Capt. Cavendish Spencer Boyle and Rose Susan Alexander, daughter of Lt-Col. C. C. Alexander. He was the grandson of Sir Courtenay Boyle and the great-grandson of the Seventh Earl of Cork and Earl of Orrery. Boyle was educated in London at Charterhouse, and later studied colonial administration and law. ==Career==

" in 1902. Boyle joined the British Colonial Office and was made magistrate in the Leeward Islands in 1879. and granted a knighthood in the same order in the 1897 Diamond Jubilee Honours. In 1894 he moved to British Guiana, where he was Government Secretary and acted as Governor several times. where he arrived in St. Johns in mid-June. He stayed as such until 1904, and wrote poems to the island's rugged beauty including the Ode to Newfoundland which was adopted as the dominion's national anthem. As governor, Boyle donated a trophy, the Boyle Challenge Cup, to the Newfoundland Hockey League. He continued his colonial career with a posting as the 19th Governor of Mauritius from 20 August 1904 to 10 April 1911, after which he retired to Brighton, England. ==Personal life==

In 1914, Boyle married to Louise Judith Sassoon , daughter of Reuben David Sassoon (1835-1905). They had no children. He died in London in 1916 after undergoing an operation. His widow, who was 25 years his junior, lived to be 90, dying in 1964. == Notes ==