The Earl of Enniskillen | |
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Born | The Hon. John Willoughby Cole 23 March 1768 |
Died | 13 April 1840 72) | (aged
Spouse | Lady Charlotte Paget |
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Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
In office 1815–1840 Hereditary peerage | |
Succeeded by | William Cole |
In office 1804–1840 Representative peer for Ireland | |
John Willoughby Cole,2nd Earl of Enniskillen KP (23 March 1768 –31 March 1840),styled Viscount Cole from 1789 to 1803,was an Irish peer and Member of Parliament.
Cole was the son of William Cole,1st Earl of Enniskillen. He succeeded his father to the peerage and the Florence Court estate in 1803.
In 1790 and in 1798,he was elected for Sligo and County Fermanagh. Both times,he chose to sit for the latter and represented the constituency in the Irish House of Commons until the Act of Union in 1801. After the Union,Cole was subsequently returned to the British House of Commons for Fermanagh,a seat he held until he succeeded his father to the earldom in 1803. He then sat in the House of Lords as an Irish representative peer from 1804 to 1840.
He was also Governor of Fermanagh until 1831 and thereafter Lord Lieutenant of the county until his death. He was made a Knight of the Order of St Patrick in 1810 and in 1815 created Baron Grinstead,of Grinstead in the County of Wiltshire,in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
Lord Enniskillen married Lady Charlotte Paget,daughter of Henry Paget,1st Earl of Uxbridge,in 1805. They had five children:
He died in March 1840,aged 72,and was succeeded in his titles by his eldest son William.
Earl of Enniskillen is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1789 for William Cole,1st Viscount Enniskillen. He had already been created Viscount Enniskillen in the Peerage of Ireland in 1776 and had inherited the title Baron Mountflorence,of Florence Court in the County of Fermanagh,which had been created in the Peerage of Ireland in 1760 for his father John Cole,who had earlier represented Enniskillen in the Irish House of Commons. The family are descended from the Ulster planter,Sir William Cole.
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