Lowry Egerton Cole, 4th Earl of Enniskillen, (21 December 1845 – 28 April 1924), styled Viscount Cole from 1850 to 1886, was an Irish peer and Conservative

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Background

Cole was the second – but eldest surviving – son of

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 ...

and his wife, Jane Casamaijor. He was educated at

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Political career

As Lord Cole, he was appointed

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for 1870 and then elected to the House of Commons for

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in 1880, a seat he held until 1885 when the constituency was abolished. The following year he succeeded his father as fourth Earl of Enniskillen and entered the

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. Lord Enniskillen was appointed a Knight of the

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(KP) in the

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list published on 26 June 1902, and was invested by the

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, at

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on 11 August 1902.

Personal life

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Lord Enniskillen married Charlotte Marion Baird, daughter of wealthy

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businessman Douglas Baird and his wife Charlotte Acton, in 1869. The following year he was cited as one of two co-respondents in the case for divorce brought by Sir Charles Mordaunt, 10th Bt., a former

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, against his wife, Harriet, in which

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, The Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII), was called to give evidence. The divorce was denied as Lady Mordaunt was judged to be insane, but was finally granted in 1875 when Cole did not contest the claim that he was the father of Lady Mordaunt's daughter, Violet (1869–1928), later Marchioness of Bath. Lord Enniskillen died in April 1924, aged 78, and was succeeded in his titles by his second – but eldest surviving – son John. Lady Enniskillen died in 1937. The third son of Lord Enniskillen was

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Galbraith Lowry Egerton Cole Galbraith Lowry Egerton Cole (1881–1929) was an Anglo-Irish pioneer settler and farmer (1905) of the East Africa Protectorate. Part of his Kekopey Ranch on Lake Elementaita, Kenya, where he is buried, is preserved today as the Lake Elementait ...

(1881–1929), a pioneer settler (1905) of the East Africa Protectorate. His Kekopey Ranch on Lake Elementaita,

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, where he is buried, is preserved today as the Lake Elementaita Lodge. His daughter, Lady Florence Anne Cole, married

Hugh Cholmondeley, 3rd Baron Delamere Hugh Cholmondeley, 3rd Baron Delamere, (28 April 1870 – 13 November 1931), styled The Honourable from birth until 1887, was a British peer. He was one of the first and most influential British settlers in Kenya. Lord Delamere was the son of ...

of Vale Royal (b. 28 Apr 1870, d. 13 Nov 1931).Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003.

Notes

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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