Birth Date: | 13 October 1709 |
Death Date: | 30 November 1767 |
Birth Place: | Dublin, Ireland |
Alma Mater: | Trinity College Dublin |
Constituency Mp: | Enniskillen |
Parliament: | Parliament of IrelandIrish |
Term Start: | 1730 |
Term End: | 1760 |
Successor: | William Willoughby Cole |
Honorific Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
The Lord Mountflorence | |
Children: | William Cole, 1st Earl of Enniskillen |
Parents: | John Cole (father) |
John Cole, 1st Baron Mountflorence (13 October 1709 β 30 November 1767) was an Irish peer and politician.[1]
Born in Dublin, he was the son of John Cole, Member of Parliament for Enniskillen. In 1726 he was admitted to Trinity College Dublin,[2] 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.[1]