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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 647 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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3RD

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EARL OF WILLIAM
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WILLOUGHBY COLE ENNISKILLEN (1807-1886)
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British palaeontologist, was born on the 25th of
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January 1807, and educated at
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Harrow and Christ Church, Oxford . As Lord Cole he early began to devote his leisure to the study and collection of fossil fishes, with his friend
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Sir Philip de M . G . Egerton, and he amassed a
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fine collection at Florence Court, Enniskillen—including many specimens that were described and figured by Agassiz and Egerton . This collection was subsequently acquired by the British Museum . He died on the 21st of November r886, being succeeded by his son (b . 1845) as 4th
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earl . The first of the Coles (an old Devonshire and
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Cornwall
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family) to settle in Ireland was Sir William Cole (d . 1653), who was " undertaker " of the
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northern plantation and received a grant of a large
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property in
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Fermanagh in Orr, and became provost and later governor of Enniskillen . In 176o his descendant John Cole (d . 1767) was created Baron Mountflorence, and the latter's son, William
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Willoughby Cole (1736-1803), was in 1776 created Viscount Enniskillen and in 1789 earl . The 1st earl's second son, Sir Galbraith Lowry Cole (1772-1842), was a prominent general in the
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Peninsular War, and colonel of the 27th Inniskillings, the Irish regiment with whose name the family was associated .

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