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William Cole, 3rd Earl of Enniskillen






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The Earl of Enniskillen
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
In office
1840–1886
Hereditary Peerage
Preceded byJohn Cole
Succeeded byLowry Cole
Personal details
Born

William Willoughby Cole


(1807-01-25)25 January 1807
Died26 November 1886(1886-11-26) (aged 79)
Political partyConservative
Spouses

Jane Casamaijor

(m. 1844; died 1855)

The Hon. Mary Emma Brodrick

(m. 1865)
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)
    EducationHarrow 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.

    Background and education[edit]

    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[edit]

    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[edit]

    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[edit]

  • ^ "Fossil fish collection | Natural History Museum". www.nhm.ac.uk. Retrieved 24 April 2022.
  • ^ Thomas Hay Sweet Escott, Club Makers and Club Members (1913), pp. 329–333
  • ^ The great landowners of Great Britain and Ireland
  • References[edit]

    Attribution:

    Further reading[edit]

    External links[edit]

    Parliament of the United Kingdom
    Preceded by

    Mervyn Archdall
    Viscount Corry

    Member of Parliament for Fermanagh
    1831–1840
    With: Mervyn Archdall 1831–1835
    Mervyn Edward Archdale 1835–1840
    Succeeded by

    Mervyn Edward Archdale
    Sir Arthur Brooke, Bt

    Peerage of Ireland
    Preceded by

    John Willoughby Cole

    Earl of Enniskillen
    1840–1886
    Succeeded by

    Lowry Egerton Cole


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