The Boyle Baronetcy, of Ockham in Salehurst in the County of Sussex, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 14 December 1904 for the barrister and businessman Edward Boyle

Sir Edward Boyle, 1st Baronet

Sir Edward Boyle, 1st Baronet was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.He was elected at the 1906 general election as Member of Parliament for Taunton, but died in office three years later, aged 60....

. He later sat as Conservative

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 Member of Parliament

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 for Taunton

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. His grandson, the third Baronet, was a prominent Conservative politician and cabinet minister

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. He was made a life peer

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 as Baron Boyle of Handsworth, of Salehurst in the County of Sussex, in 1970. The life peerage became extinct on his death in 1981 while he was succeeded in the baronetcy by his younger brother, the fourth Baronet. As of 2010 the title is held by the latter's eldest son, the fifth Baronet, who succeeded in 1983.

The original family surname was O'Boyle.

Boyle Baronets, of Ockham (1904)

• Sir Edward Boyle, 1st Baronet
  Sir Edward Boyle, 1st Baronet
  Sir Edward Boyle, 1st Baronet was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.He was elected at the 1906 general election as Member of Parliament for Taunton, but died in office three years later, aged 60....
  
   (1848–1909)
• Sir Edward Boyle, 2nd Baronet (1878–1945)
• Sir Edward Charles Gurney Boyle, 3rd Baronet (1923–1981) (created Baron Boyle of Handsworth in 1970)
• Sir Richard Gurney Boyle, 4th Baronet (1930–1983)
• Sir Stephen Gurney Boyle, 5th Baronet (b. 1962)