The Earl of Cork and Orrery
Crossbench
Member of the House of Lords
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The Earl of Cork and Orrery's full title is The Earl of Cork and Orrery. His name is John Richard Boyle, and he was excluded from the House of Lords on 29 April 2026.
Allowance claims · 2026
Data not yet released for 2026 — the Lords Finance Office publishes monthly CSVs ~6-8 weeks after month-end.
Lords votes · 2026
162 divisions
5 Content(3.1%)
0 Not-Content(0.0%)
157 didn't vote(96.9%)
Source: lordsvotes-api.parliament.uk. "Result" shows the headline
Content vs Not-Content tally (including tellers). The Lords doesn't
publish a "didn't vote" attendance roll like the Commons, so the
figure above conflates absence with abstention.
Recent Hansard contributions · latest 17
2025-12-08
Royal Navy Submarine Force
My Lords, could the Minister advise the House as to the progress of the floating dock construction to which he alluded just now? The programme was announced two years ago but has not yet shown any sign of going into production. Secondly, could he indicat
2025-12-08
Royal Navy Submarine Force
My Lords—
2024-01-18
Biosecurity and Infectious Diseases
My Lords, I have yet another thank you very much to my noble friend Lord Trees for what has been a quite exceptional debate. It is interesting that it is exactly four years to the week since this subject was last debated in your Lordships’ House, and a l
2020-02-13
Tree Pests and Diseases
My Lords, I echo the thanks to my noble and learned friend Lord Hope and my noble friend Lord Kinnoull for procuring this valuable debate. I declare an interest as a trustee of the International Dendrology Society. It is an honour to follow so many knowl
2020-02-12
Fishery Protection Squadron
My Lords, can the Minister inform us how the Scottish waters, under the Scottish Fisheries Protection Agency, will be integrated with the English and Welsh, and even Irish, waters? How will the three Scottish fishery protection vessels be integrated with
2019-06-25
Ash Dieback
My Lords—
2019-02-06
Offensive Weapons Bill
My Lords, I will add a couple of points. It is very instructive to look up “sniper rifles” on Google because you get a huge list of them, the vast majority at 7.62 calibre not .50 calibre. It is also interesting to see that three of the most popular .50
2019-02-06
Offensive Weapons Bill
Typographic error or no, it is not in there. Going back to large-calibre rifles, quite a lot of people get much fun out of remarkable things such as black-powder, muzzle-loader and Snider .577 rifles, which are far larger but have very low effects. Again
2019-02-06
Offensive Weapons Bill
As I read it, the amendment does not refer to the .22 calibre whereas a similar paragraph in the Bill does.
2019-02-06
Offensive Weapons Bill
I object to some parts of the amendment. There are two or three areas where there is insufficient attention to detail for it to supersede the original Bill. For a start, there is a question about MARS and lever action which, as has just been raised, is u
2018-06-21
Armed Forces: Reserves
My Lords, I also thank the noble Lord, Lord De Mauley, for providing this timely debate. I was struck indeed by the words of my noble and gallant friend Lord Stirrup, who covered most of the more intellectual aspects of the needs of and background to the
2018-02-01
Royal Navy: Warships
My Lords, the Navy is in the process of taking delivery of five Batch 2 offshore patrol vessels. These will displace four earlier vessels, one of which, HMS “Severn”, has already been decommissioned. She is only 15 years old. Will the Minister undertake
2018-01-29
Russia
My Lords, I add my thanks to those of every other speaker to the noble Viscount for securing this timely debate. It is timely because over recent weeks we have heard much about resurgent Russia’s intentions. Such talk and reporting is generally laced wit
I thank the Minister for his cogent explanation. I declare an interest as the spouse of the part-owner of a west coast river.
There is great concern among those involved with district salmon fishery boards on the west coast of Scotland that this clari
2017-11-23
UK Defence Forces
My Lords, I, too, congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Soley, on his excellent speech and on procuring this debate. I also congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Hutton, on his incisive analysis of the situation.
Discussion has focused largely on equipment, p
2017-03-21
Armed Forces Act (Continuation) Order 2017
My Lords, in contrast to the large number of qualifications and interests which many noble Lords have professed, I can only profess to having been a Cold War submarine commander, but I have the interests of the senior service very much at heart. I thank
2016-12-08
Brexit: Armed Forces and Diplomatic Service
My Lords, it is a great privilege to follow the noble Lord, Lord Ashdown, who I remember as a young Royal Marine officer in the Far East very many years ago. Equally very many years ago, as youngsters leaving primary school, a kindly headmaster gathered u
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Register of Interests · 2 entries on file
Declarations under the Lords Code of Conduct. Free text — no monetary values, no hours worked. A declaration that an interest exists, not a claim about its size.
Category 3: Land and property
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Residual Estate in Counties Cork, Kerry and Limerick, Ireland
registered 2024-05-22 · amended 2025-04-05
Category 6: Gifts, benefits and hospitality
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As a member of the All-Parliamentary Parliamentary Group for the Armed Forces, the member receives invitations to dinner briefings which during the course of the calendar year together amount to more than £300 in value and all of which are paid for by sources listed in the register of APPGs
registered 2024-05-22 · amended 2025-04-05
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Party history
2016-07-19 → 2026-04-29
Crossbench
Government posts
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Opposition posts
None recorded.
Committee memberships
2024-10-31 → 2026-04-29
Ecclesiastical Committee
2017-07-10 → 2024-05-30
Ecclesiastical Committee
Contact
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APPGs (2026) · 0 active officership(s)
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Written parliamentary questions · 2026
No written questions tabled in 2026.
Bills sponsored & supported · 2026
0 bills
0 as lead sponsor
0 as supporter
No bills sponsored or supported in 2026.
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primary mover (sortOrder = 1); "Supporter" rows are
members of either House who
backed the bill at introduction. Year is the bill's first-reading
date.
Historic bills (all-time)
0 bills
0 as lead sponsor
0 as supporter
No bills sponsored or supported on record.
Same source as the year-scoped panel above, but unconstrained by
year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at
introduction. Sorted newest first.