Henry Boyle, 1st Earl of Shannon

Henry Boyle, 1st Earl of Shannon, PC (Ire), was an Anglo-Irish politician who served as the speaker of the Irish House of Commons from 1733 to 1756. A prominent parliamentarian who sat for almost fifty years in the Parliament of Ireland, Boyle frequently defended Irish interests against British Crown officials, eventually leading to a legal crisis which saw him step down as speaker in return for a peerage.