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On his return to Kenya, Cole joined Kenya Airways. [1] He became a Kenyan citizen in 1972 [2] and was the company's managing director between 1979 and 1981. [1]On 30 May 1989, he succeeded as Earl of Enniskillen (an Irish peerage created in 1789), and also as Viscount Enniskillen (1776), Baron Mountflorence (1760), and Baron Grinstead (1815).
Florence Court. Earl of Enniskillen is a title in the Peerage of Ireland.It was created in 1789 for William Cole, 1st Viscount Enniskillen. [3] He had already been created Viscount Enniskillen in the Peerage of Ireland in 1776 [4] and had inherited the title Baron Mountflorence, of Florence Court in the County of Fermanagh, [5] which had been created in the Peerage of Ireland in 1760 for his ...
Lady Enniskillen died in 1937. The third son of Lord Enniskillen was The Hon. 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.
Captain Cole was also highly involved in colonial politics in the Colony of Kenya in the very early 1960s. In 1963, David succeeded his uncle in Ireland as the 6th Lord Enniskillen. In 1977, the Kekopey Estate was sold off to a cooperative society and the land divided into small plots for individual shareholders.
William Willoughby Cole, 1st Earl of Enniskillen (1 March 1736 – 22 May 1803), styled The Honourable from 1760 to 1767, then known as the Lord Mountflorence to 1776 and as the Viscount Enniskillen to 1789, was an Irish peer and politician. Enniskillen was the eldest son of John Cole, 1st Baron Mountflorence of Florence Court, County Fermanagh.
The Right Honourable The Earl of Enniskillen KP Portrait by William Robinson, c. 1820–1839 Born The Hon. John Willoughby Cole 23 March 1768 Died 13 April 1840 (1840-04-14) (aged 72) Spouse Lady Charlotte Paget Parents William Cole, 1st Earl of Enniskillen (father) Anne Lowry-Corry (mother) Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal In office 1815–1840 Hereditary peerage Succeeded by ...
The Right Honourable The Earl of Enniskillen FRS Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal In office 1840–1886 Hereditary Peerage Preceded by John Cole Succeeded by Lowry Cole Personal details Born William Willoughby Cole (1807-01-25) 25 January 1807 Died 26 November 1886 (1886-11-26) (aged 79) Political party Conservative Spouses Jane Casamaijor (m. 1844; died 1855) The Hon. Mary Emma ...
His mother was Lady Florence Anne Cole, an Anglo-Irish aristocrat who was the daughter of Lowry Cole, 4th Earl of Enniskillen. Cholmondeley was an indirect descendant of Sir Robert Walpole, the first Prime Minister of Great Britain. [1] He was educated at Eton. During the Second World War he served with the Welsh Guards and achieved the rank of ...