11 Facts About Cavendish Boyle

Cavendish Boyle wrote the lyrics for the anthem of the Dominion and later Province of Newfoundland, "Ode to Newfoundland".

Cavendish Spencer Boyle and Rose Susan Alexander, daughter of Lt-Col.

Cavendish Boyle was the grandson of Sir Courtenay Boyle and the great-grandson of the Seventh Earl of Cork and Earl of Orrery.

Cavendish Boyle's elder brother, Sir Courtenay Edmund Boyle, was a civil servant who served as Permanent Secretary to the Board of Trade.

Cavendish Boyle joined the British Colonial Office and was made magistrate in the Leeward Islands in 1879.

Cavendish Boyle served as Colonial Secretary of Bermuda from 1882 to 1888 and in Gibraltar from 1888 to 1894.

Cavendish Boyle was appointed a Companion of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint John in 1889, and granted a knighthood in the same order in the 1897 Diamond Jubilee Honours.

Cavendish Boyle 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.

Cavendish Boyle 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.

In 1914, Cavendish Boyle married to Louise Judith Sassoon, daughter of Reuben David Sassoon.

Cavendish Boyle died in London in 1916 after undergoing an operation.