Sir Courtenay Edmund Boyle KCB (21 October 1845 – 18 May 1901) was an English first-class cricketer and civil servant. The son of Captain Cavendish Spencer Boyle and Rose Susan Alexander and the grandson of the Royal Navy admiral of the same name, he was born in October 1845 at the British military outpost at Newcastle in the Colony of Jamaica. He was educated at Charterhouse School, before going up to Christ Church, Oxford. Boyle debuted in first-class cricket for Southgate against Oxford University at Oxford on 9 June 1865. Two weeks later he played his first first-class match for Oxford against the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). He played first-class cricket for Oxford until 1867, making fourteen appearances in which he scored 367 runs at an average of 15.95, with a high score of 55. He