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Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington

1694 - 1753

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Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington and 4th Earl of Cork, (25 April 1694 – 4 December 1753) was a British architect and noble often called the "Apollo of the Arts" and the "Architect Earl". The son of the 2nd Earl of Burlington and 3rd Earl of Cork, Burlington never took more than a passing interest in politics despite his position as a Privy Counsellor and a member of both the British House of Lords and the Irish House of Lords. His great interests in life were architecture and landscaping, and he is remembered for being a builder and a patron of architects, craftsmen and landscapers, Indeed, he is credited with bringing Palladian architecture to Britain and Ireland. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington has received more than 211,042 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington is the 429th most popular architect (down from 372nd in 2019), the 3,710th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,174th in 2019) and the 27th most popular British Architect.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington ranks 429 out of 518. Before him are Carlos Raúl Villanueva, Peter Cook, Ventura Rodríguez, Daniel Marot, Jan Kaplický, and Jan Kotěra. After him are Guðjón Samúelsson, Matvey Kazakov, Ragnar Östberg, Johann Friedrich Höger, Károly Kós, and Josef Gočár.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1694, Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington ranks 22. Before him are Count Palatine Joseph Charles of Sulzbach, Augustine Washington, Charles-Antoine Coypel, René Louis de Voyer de Paulmy d'Argenson, Daniel Gran, and Hans Adolph Brorson. After him are Duchess Gustave Caroline of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and George Edwards. Among people deceased in 1753, Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington ranks 12. Before him are Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Louise Bénédicte de Bourbon, Charles August, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg, Franciszka Urszula Radziwiłłowa, Nicolas Fatio de Duillier, and Johann Nicolaus Bach.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington ranks 3,710 out of 8,785. Before him are Freddie Francis (1917), Jason Bonham (1966), Eric Stewart (1945), Princess Elizabeth of Great Britain (1741), Erskine Hamilton Childers (1905), and Tommy Douglas (1904). After him are Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland (1421), Richard of Chichester (1197), Bev Bevan (1944), Henry Holland, 3rd Duke of Exeter (1430), Gordon Haskell (1946), and Kathy Burke (1964).

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Among ARCHITECTS In United Kingdom

Among architects born in United Kingdom, Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington ranks 27. Before him are John Soane (1753), Capability Brown (1716), Frederick Catherwood (1799), Nora Stanton Barney (1883), Carlos Raúl Villanueva (1900), and Peter Cook (1936). After him are Edward Blore (1787), Nicholas Grimshaw (1939), Benjamin Henry Latrobe (1764), Charles Robert Cockerell (1788), Nicholas Hawksmoor (1661), and Kenneth Frampton (1930).

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