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 William Willoughby Cole, 1st Earl of Enniskillen (1 March 1736 – 22 May 1803), styled The Honourable from 1760 to 1767, then known as Lord Mountflorence to 1776 and as Viscount Enniskillen to 1789, was an Irish peer and politician. Enniskille ...

. He succeeded his father to the peerage and the

Florence Court Florence Court is a large 18th-century house and estate located 8 miles south-west of Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. It is set in the foothills of Cuilcagh Mountain. The nearby village is distinguished by the one-word name Flo ...

estate in 1803. In 1790 and in 1798, he was elected for

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and

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. Both times, he chose to sit for the latter and represented the constituency in the

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until the Act of Union in 1801. After the Union, Cole was subsequently returned to the

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for

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, a seat he held until he succeeded his father to the earldom in 1803. He then sat in the

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as an

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from 1804 to 1840. He was also

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until 1831 and thereafter

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of the county until his death. He was made a

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in 1810 and in 1815 created Baron Grinstead, of Grinstead in the County of Wiltshire, in the

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Private life

Lord Enniskillen married Lady Charlotte Paget, daughter of

Henry Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge Henry Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge (13 January 166330 August 1743), of Beaudesert, Staffordshire, and West Drayton, Middlesex, was a British landowner and Tory politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons from 1695 until 171 ...

, in 1805. They had five children: *

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 Imp ...

(1807–1886) * Lt.-Col. Hon. Henry Arthur Cole (14 February 1809 – 2 July 1890) * Lady Jane Anne Louisa Florence Cole (27 July 1811 – 23 March 1831) * Hon.

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 hel ...

(8 June 1813 – 28 November 1882) * Hon. Lowry Balfour Cole (6 June 1815 – 14 January 1818) He died in March 1840, aged 72, and was succeeded in his titles by his eldest son

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References

* Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990. * Malcolmson, A. P. W. 'The Enniskillen Family, Estate and Archive'. ''Clogher Record'' 16 (2), 1998, pp. 81–122.

External links

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