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ENNISKILLEN, See also:WILLIAM See also:WILLOUGHBY See also:COLE, 3RD See also:EARL OF (1807-1886) , See also:British palaeontologist, was See also:born on the 25th of See also:January 1807, and educated at See also:Harrow and See also:Christ See also:Church, See also:Oxford. As See also:Lord Cole he See also:early began to devote his leisure to the study and collection of fossil fishes, with his friend See also:Sir See also:Philip de M. G. See also:Egerton, and he amassed a See also:fine collection at See also:Florence See also:Court, Enniskillen—including many specimens that were described and figured by See also:Agassiz and Egerton. This collection was subsequently acquired by the British Museum. He died on the 21st of See also:November r886, being succeeded by his son (b. 1845) as 4th earl. The first of the Coles (an old See also:Devonshire and See also:Cornwall See also:family) to See also:settle in See also:Ireland was Sir William Cole (d. 1653), who was " undertaker " of the See also:northern See also:plantation and received a See also:grant of a large See also:property in See also:Fermanagh in Orr, and became See also:provost and later See also:governor of Enniskillen. In 176o his descendant See also:John Cole (d. 1767) was created See also:Baron Mountflorence, and the latter's son, William Willoughby Cole (1736-1803), was in 1776 created See also:Viscount Enniskillen and in 1789 earl. The 1st earl's second son, Sir Galbraith Lowry Cole (1772-1842), was a prominent See also:general in the See also:Peninsular See also:War, and See also:colonel of the 27th Inniskillings, the Irish See also:regiment with whose name the family was associated.

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