Lowry Egerton Cole, 4th Earl of Enniskillen KP (21 December 1845 – 28 April 1924), styled Viscount Cole from 1850 to 1886, was an Irish peer and Conservative Member of Parliament.
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Cole was the second – but eldest surviving – son of William Willoughby Cole, 3rd Earl of Enniskillen, and Jane Casamaijor.
Cole was appointed High Sheriff of Fermanagh for 1870 and then elected to the House of Commons for Enniskillen 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 House of Lords. In 1902 he was made a Knight of the Order of St Patrick.
Lord Enniskillen married Charlotte Marion Baird, daughter of 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 against his wife Harriet in which the Prince of Wales (later 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 the Honorable Galbraith Lowry Egerton Cole (1881-1929), a pioneer settler (1905) of the East Africa Protectorate. His Kekopey Ranch on Lake Elementaita, Kenya, where he is buried, is preserved today as the Lake Elementaita Lodge.
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| Preceded by Viscount Crichton |
Member of Parliament for Enniskillen 1880–1885 |
Succeeded by constituency abolished |
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| Preceded by William Willoughby Cole |
Earl of Enniskillen 1886–1924 |
Succeeded by John Henry Michael Cole |