Sir John Cole, 1st Baronet

Sir John Cole, 1st Baronet (died 1691) was an Anglo-Irish politician.

Cole was a Royalist who, as Governor of Enniskillen, had been a prominent promoter of the interests of Charles II of England. On 23 January 1661 he was made a baronet, of Newland in the Baronetage of Ireland in recognition of his loyalty to the Crown.[1] Cole sat in the Irish House of Commons as the Member of Parliament for Fermanagh between 1661 and 1666, and from 1661 to his death he was Custos Rotulorum of Fermanagh. Cole was one of the commissioners appointed to implement the Act of Settlement 1662 in Ireland. He 1675 he was made a member of the Privy Council of Ireland.

He married Elizabeth Chichester, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel John Chichester and the Honourable Mary Jones, daughter of Roger Jones, 1st Viscount Ranelagh, and aunt of Richard Jones, 1st Earl of Ranelagh. Cole was succeeded in his title by his son, Arthur Cole, who was made Baron Ranelagh in 1715.

References

1. John Burke, A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerages of England, Ireland, and Scotland, extinct, dormant, and in abeyance (Henry Colburn, 1846), p.652.