John Cole, 1st Baron Mountflorence
The Lord Mountflorence | |
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| Member of the Irish Parliament for Enniskillen | |
| In office 1730–1760 | |
| Succeeded by | William Willoughby Cole |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 13 October 1709 Dublin, Ireland |
| Died | 30 November 1767 |
| Children | William Cole, 1st Earl of Enniskillen |
| Parent | John Cole (father) |
| Alma mater | Trinity College Dublin |
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John Cole, 1st Baron Mountflorence (13 October 1709 – 30 November 1767) was an Irish peer and politician.[3]
Born in Dublin, he was the son of John Cole, Member of Parliament for Enniskillen. In 1726 he was admitted to Trinity College Dublin,[4] and four years later returned to the Irish House of Commons as member for his father's old seat of Enniskillen, a constituency he represented until his ennoblement. He was also High Sheriff of Fermanagh in 1733. In 1760 Cole was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Mountflorence, of Florence Court in the County of Fermanagh. He took his seat in the Irish House of Lords the following year, and died six years later aged 58. He was succeeded in the barony by his son William Willoughby Cole, who was created Earl of Enniskillen in 1789.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Kidd, Charles, Debrett's peerage & Baronetage 2015 Edition, London, 2015, p.P425
- ^ Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.213
- ^ a b Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. p. 1327. ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.
- ^ Alumni Dublinenses : a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593–1860), George Dames Burtchaell/Thomas Ulick Sadleir p. 163: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935
Further reading
[edit]- Malcomson, A. P. W. "The Enniskillen Family, Estate and Archive". Clogher Record 16, no. 2 (1998): 81–122.
- 1709 births
- 1767 deaths
- Alumni of Trinity College Dublin
- Barons in the Peerage of Ireland
- Cole family (Anglo-Irish aristocracy)
- Peers of Ireland created by George II
- High sheriffs of County Fermanagh
- Irish MPs 1727–1760
- Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Fermanagh constituencies
- Politicians from County Dublin