William Cole, 3rd Earl of Enniskillen

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Jane Casamaijor
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(m. 1844;died 1855)​
The Hon. Mary Emma Brodrick
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The Right Honourable
The Earl of Enniskillen
FRS
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Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
In office
1840–1886
Hereditary Peerage
Children
  • John Willoughby Michael Cole, Viscount Cole
  • Lowry Cole, 4th Earl of Enniskillen
  • Lady Charlotte June Smith-Barry
  • Florence Mary Crichton, Countess Erne
  • The Hon. Arthur Edward Casamaijor Cole
  • Lady Alice Elizabeth Ashley
  • Lady Jane Evelyn Cole
Parent(s) John Cole, 2nd Earl of Enniskillen (father)
Lady Charlotte Paget (mother)
Education Harrow School
Christ Church, Oxford

William Willoughby Cole, 3rd Earl of Enniskillen, FRS (25 January 1807 –12 November 1886) styled by the courtesy title Viscount Cole until 1840, was an Irish palaeontologist and Conservative Member of Parliament. He also served as the first Imperial Grand Master of the Orange Order from 1866 until his death. He was Grand Master of the Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland from 1846 until his death.

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Background and education

Cole was born into the Ulster branch of 'the Ascendancy', the Anglo-Irish aristocracy. He was the son of John Willoughby Cole, 2nd Earl of Enniskillen and his wife, Lady Charlotte Paget. Lord Cole was educated at Harrow and Christ Church, Oxford. In his youth he began to devote his leisure to the study and collection of fossil fishes, with his friend Sir Philip Grey Egerton, 10th Bt, and amassed a fine collection at Florence Court, his home just south-west of Enniskillen. This included many specimens that were described and figured by Agassiz and Egerton. This collection was subsequently acquired by the British Museum, and now resides at the Natural History Museum, London. [1] [2]

Political career

Lord Enniskillen was also involved in politics and represented (as Lord Cole) Fermanagh in the House of Commons between 1831 and 1840, when he succeeded his father, to become the third Earl of Enniskillen, and entered the House of Lords as Baron Grinstead. In Dublin, he was a member of the Kildare Street Club. [3]

Family

Florence Court, County Fermanagh Florence Court frontage.jpg
Florence Court, County Fermanagh

Lord Enniskillen married, firstly, Jane Casamaijor, daughter of James Casamaijor, in 1844, by whom he had seven children:

After her death in 1855 he married, secondly, The Hon. Mary Emma Brodrick, daughter of Charles Brodrick, 6th Viscount Midleton, in 1865. He died in November 1886, aged 79, and was succeeded in his titles by his second but eldest surviving son from his first marriage, Lowry. The Dowager Countess of Enniskillen died in 1896.

He owned a total of 30,000 acres in Fermanagh and Wiltshire. [4]

Notes

  1. ↑ Chisholm 1911.
  2. ↑ "Fossil fish collection | Natural History Museum". www.nhm.ac.uk. Retrieved 24 April 2022.
  3. ↑ Thomas Hay Sweet Escott, Club Makers and Club Members (1913), pp. 329–333
  4. ↑ The great landowners of Great Britain and Ireland

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Preceded by Member of Parliament for Fermanagh
1831–1840
With: Mervyn Archdall 1831–1835
Mervyn Edward Archdale 1835–1840 		Succeeded by
Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by Earl of Enniskillen
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