Richard Boyle (rowing)
Richard Frederick Robert Pochin Boyle was a British coxswain who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics.
Boyle was born at Ipsden, Oxfordshire, the son of Major Charles John Boyle and Lillian Kennedy Pochin. Boyle was educated at Cambridge University and coxed the Cambridge boat in the Boat Race in 1907 and 1908. The Cambridge crew made up a boat in the eights which won the bronze medal rowing at the 1908 Summer Olympics.
In the First World War, Boyle was a captain in the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and was wounded.
Boyle married Marion Elisa Hill Wallace, daughter of Major-General Hill Wallace, on 12 February 1918
