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John Cole, 2nd Earl Of Enniskillen
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. Life Cole was the son of William Willoughby 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 Grinste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Robinson (painter, Born 1799)
William Robinson (1799–1839) was an English portrait-painter. Life William Robinson was a native of Leeds, where he was born in 1799. He was at first apprenticed to a clock-dial enameller, but came to London in 1820, and was entered as a student at the Royal Academy. Robinson was also admitted to work in the studio of Sir Thomas Lawrence.Cust 1897, p. 56. About 1823 he returned to Leeds, and obtained a very considerable practice there and in the neighbourhood. He was commissioned to paint some large full-length portraits for the United Service Club in London, including one of the Duke of Wellington. He likewise drew small portraits, the heads being carefully finished, and the remainder lightly touched after the manner of Henry Edridge. He died at Leeds in August 1839, in his fortieth year. Works * Edinburgh (Scottish National Portrait Gallery): ''John Arbuthnot'' (oil on canvas).Oliver, ed. 2011. References Citations Bibliography * * Cust, L. H. and Hou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Governor Of Fermanagh
A list of the Lord Lieutenants of Fermanagh, located County Fermanagh of Northern Ireland, U.K. The Lord Lieutenant is a ceremonial local government position. There were lieutenants of counties in Ireland until the reign of James II, when they were renamed governors. The office of Lord Lieutenant was recreated on 23 August 1831. Governors * Sir John Hume, 2nd Baronet: c.1662– (died 1695) * Roger Maguire: 1689–1691 (Jacobite) * James Corry: 1705– (died 1718) * Henry Brooke: 1709– (died 1761) * Mervyn Archdall: 1756 –1772 * William Cole, 1st Earl of Enniskillen: –1803 (Governor of Enniskillen) (died 1803) * Nicholas Hume-Loftus, 2nd Earl of Ely: 1767–1769 * John Creighton, 1st Earl Erne: 1772–1828 * Charles Loftus, 1st Marquess of Ely: –1806 (died 1806) * Sir John Caldwell, 5th Baronet: 1793– (died 1830) * Mervyn Archdall: 1813P. J. JuppARCHDALL, Mervyn II (1763-1839), of Castle Archdall, Enniskillen, co. Fermanagh.in ''History of Parliament 1790–1820'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Owen Wynne (1755–1841)
Owen Wynne (1755 – 12 December 1841) was an Irish landowner and politician. He was the son of Owen Wynne (1723–1789) of Hazelwood, an MP of the Parliament of Ireland, and his wife the Hon. Anne Maxwell. He succeeded to his father's estates in 1789, inheriting Hazelwood House, Sligo. He was elected a Member of the Irish Parliament for Sligo Borough for 1776–1790 and 1791–1800. After the act of Union he sat as MP for Sligo in the UK Parliament in 1801–1806, resigning his seat by taking the notional crown office of profit as Escheator of Munster. He returned many years later as MP for Sligo borough in 1820–1830. He was appointed custos rotulorum for County Sligo for life in 1789 and High Sheriff of Sligo for 1819–20 and High Sheriff of Leitrim for 1833–34. He died in 1841. He had married Lady Sarah Elizabeth Cole, the daughter of William Cole, 1st Earl of Enniskillen; they had two sons and four daughters. His son John Arthur Wynne (1801–1865) inherited Hazelwo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Dawson (politician)
Thomas Dawson was an Irish politician. Dawson was educated at Trinity College Dublin. Dawson represented County Armagh County Armagh (, named after its county town, Armagh) is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland and one of the traditional thirty-two counties of Ireland. Adjoined to the southern shore of Lough Neagh, the county covers an area of and ha ... from 1783 to 1790, and Sligo Borough from 1873 to 1790. References 19th-century Irish people Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Irish MPs 1783–1790 Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Sligo constituencies Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Armagh constituencies {{Ireland-pre1801-MP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Wynne (Irish Politician)
Robert Wynne (4 May 1761 – 31 May 1838) was an Irish Member of Parliament. He sat in the House of Commons of Ireland The Irish House of Commons was the lower house of the Parliament of Ireland that existed from 1297 until 1800. The upper house was the House of Lords. The membership of the House of Commons was directly elected, but on a highly restrictive fra ... from 1789 to 1799, as one of the two MPs for Sligo Borough. References 1761 births 1838 deaths Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Sligo constituencies Irish MPs 1783–1790 Irish MPs 1790–1797 Irish MPs 1798–1800 {{Ireland-pre1801-MP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1801 United Kingdom General Election
In the first Parliament to be held after the Union of Great Britain and Ireland on 1 January 1801, the first House of Commons of the United Kingdom was composed of all 558 members of the former Parliament of Great Britain and 100 of the members of the House of Commons of Ireland. The Parliament of Great Britain had held its last general election in 1796 and last met on 5 November 1800. The final general election for the Parliament of Ireland had taken place in 1797, although by-elections had continued to take place until 1800. The other chamber of the Parliament, the House of Lords, consisted of members of the pre-existing House of Lords in Great Britain, in addition to 28 representative peers elected by members of the former Irish House of Lords. By a proclamation dated 5 November 1800, the members of the new united Parliament were summoned to a first meeting at Westminster on 22 January 1801. At the outset, the Tories led by Addington enjoyed a majority of 108 in the n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Cole-Hamilton
Hon. Arthur Cole-Hamilton (born Cole; 8 August 1750 – 1810) was an Anglo-Irish politician who sat in the Irish House of Commons for Fermanagh and Enniskillen. After the Acts of Union 1800, he sat in British House of Commons for Enniskillen. Cole-Hamilton was the second son of John Cole, 1st Baron Mountflorence (1709–1767) of Florencecourt, County Fermanagh, and his wife, Elizabeth Montgomery. His elder brother was William Cole, 1st Earl of Enniskillen. In 1780, he married Letitia Hamilton, daughter and heiress of Claud Hamilton, MP in the Irish Parliament, and appended her surname. They had one surviving son and three daughters: *Claud William Cole-Hamilton (1781–1822), High Sheriff of Tyrone in 1811, married Nichola Sophia Chaloner *Letitia Cole-Hamilton (5 January 1782 – 1853), married Major Randall Stafford *Elizabeth Ann Cole-Hamilton (October 1785 – 1849), married Henry Slade *Isabella Cole-Hamilton (October 1788 – 1827) Through his son Claud he was an ancesto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mervyn Archdall (d (1831–1913), Bishop of Killaloe and Clonfert
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Mervyn Archdall may refer to: *Mervyn Archdall (Irish antiquary) (1723–1791) *Mervyn Archdall (senior) (c. 1724–1813), colonel and MP for Fermanagh *Mervyn Archdall (junior) (1763–1839), general and MP for Fermanagh *Mervyn Edward Archdale (1812–1895), High Sheriff (1879) and MP for Fermanagh *Mervyn Archdall (bishop) Mervyn Archdall (16 February 1833 – 18 May 1913) was the 7th Bishop of Killaloe, Kilfenora, Clonfert and Kilmacduagh. Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, he was Vicar of Templebready from 1863 to 1872 and then of Rector of St Lukes's C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Lowry Cole
John Lowry Cole (8 June 1813 – 28 November 1882) was an Irish Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. He was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Enniskillen at a by-election in 1859 and held the seat until he stood down at the 1868 general election. Cole was the son of former Fermanagh MP John Cole, 2nd Earl of Enniskillen, and Lady Charlotte Paget, the daughter of Henry Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge. His brother Henry Cole Sir Henry Cole FRSA (15 July 1808 – 18 April 1882) was a British civil servant and inventor who facilitated many innovations in commerce and education in the 19th century in the United Kingdom. Cole is credited with devising the concept of ... was also MP for Enniskillen from 1844 to 1851, and Fermanagh from 1855 to 1880. He died unmarried in 1882. References External links * 1813 births 1882 deaths Irish Conservative Party MPs UK MPs 1857–1859 UK MPs 1859–1865 UK MPs 1865 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Cole (Conservative Politician)
Colonel Henry Arthur Cole (14 February 1809 – 2 July 1890) was an Anglo-Irish politician, cricketer and army officer. Life Cole was the second son of John Cole, 2nd Earl of Enniskillen. He succeeded his uncle Arthur Henry Cole to be elected as a Conservative Member of Parliament for Enniskillen on 18 June 1844, resigning on 31 March 1851 through his appointment as Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds. He was appointed High Sheriff of Fermanagh for 1854. He died in Willesden Willesden () is an area of northwest London, situated 5 miles (8 km) northwest of Charing Cross. It is historically a parish in the county of Middlesex that was incorporated as the Municipal Borough of Willesden in 1933, and has formed ... on 2 July 1890. References External links * "Hon. Henry Arthur Cole" (1860). ''National Portrait Gallery''. {{DEFAULTSORT:Cole, Henry Arthur 1809 births 1890 deaths Cole family (Anglo-Irish aristocracy) Members of the Parliament of the United ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Willoughby Cole, 3rd Earl Of Enniskillen
William Willoughby Cole, 3rd Earl of Enniskillen, FRS (25 January 180712 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 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, 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 colle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Paget, 1st Earl Of Uxbridge (second Creation)
Henry Bayly-Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge (18 June 1744 – 13 March 1812), known as Henry Bayly until 1769 and as Lord Paget between 1769 and 1784, was a British peer. Early life Born Henry Bayly, Uxbridge was the eldest son of Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet, of Plas Newydd in Anglesey, by his wife Caroline Paget, daughter of Brigadier-General Thomas Paget and a great-granddaughter of William Paget, 5th Baron Paget. He succeeded as 10th Baron Paget in 1769 on the death of his mother's second cousin, Henry Paget, 2nd Earl of Uxbridge. By Royal Licence on 29 January 1770, he took the name of Paget in lieu of Bayly. In 1782 he succeeded his father as 3rd Baronet. Career Paget was commissioned Colonel of the newly-raised Staffordshire Militia on 22 April 1776 during the War of American Independence. He resigned in 1781 but was re-appointed in 1783, after the war had ended and the regiment was disembodied. He was still commanding the regiment when it was re-embodied for the Frenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
