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{{Short description|Irish peer and politician}}
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| birth_date          = 13 October 1709
| death_date          = 30 November 1767
| image               = File:British_School_-_John_Cole_(1709–1767),_1st_Baron_Mountflorence_of_Florence_Court_-_631071_-_National_Trust.jpg
| birth_place         = [[Dublin]], Ireland
| alma_mater          = [[Trinity College Dublin]]
| constituency_MP     = [[Enniskillen (Parliament of Ireland constituency)|Enniskillen]]
| parliament          = Parliament of Ireland{{!}}Irish
| term_start          = 1730
| term_end            = 1760
| successor           = [[William Cole, 1st Earl of Enniskillen|William Willoughby Cole]]
| honorific_prefix    = [[The Right Honourable]]
| name                = The Lord Mountflorence
| children            = [[William Cole, 1st Earl of Enniskillen]]
| parents             = John Cole (father)
}}
[[File:Cole (EarlOfEnniskillen) Arms.png|thumb|Arms of Cole, Earl of Enniskillen: ''Argent, a bull passant sable armed or a bordure of the second bezantée on a canton sinister per pale gules and azure a harp of the third stringed argent''.<ref>Kidd, Charles, Debrett's peerage & Baronetage 2015 Edition, London, 2015, p.P425</ref> These are the arms of Cole of [[Nethway, Brixham|Nethway]] in the parish of [[Brixham]], Devon,<ref>[[John Lambrick Vivian|Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L.]], (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the [[Heraldic visitation|Heralds' Visitations]] of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.213</ref> differenced by a canton]]
'''John Cole, 1st Baron Mountflorence''' (13 October 1709 – 30 November 1767) was an [[Ireland|Irish]] peer and politician.<ref name="burke">{{cite book |title= [[Burke's Peerage|Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood]]|publisher=Burke's Peerage & Gentry |editor= Mosley, Charles |editor-link=Charles Mosley (genealogist) |edition=107 |year= 2003 |page=1327 |ref=Burke |isbn=0-9711966-2-1}}</ref>

Born in [[Dublin]], he was the son of John Cole, [[Member of parliament|Member of Parliament]] for [[Enniskillen (Parliament of Ireland constituency)|Enniskillen]]. In 1726 he was admitted to [[Trinity College Dublin]],<ref>''[[Alumni Dublinenses]] : a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of [[Trinity College, Dublin|Trinity College in the University of Dublin]] (1593–1860)'', [[George Dames Burtchaell]], [[Thomas Ulick Sadleir]] p. 163: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935</ref> 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 Cole, 1st Earl of Enniskillen|William Willoughby Cole]], who was created [[Earl of Enniskillen]] in 1789.<ref name="burke"/>

== References ==
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==Further reading==
*Malcomson, A. P. W. "[http://www.jstor.org/stable/20641352 The Enniskillen Family, Estate and Archive]". ''Clogher Record'' 16, no. 2 (1998): 81–122.

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