Galbraith Lowry Cole
Sir Galbraith Lowry Cole 1 May 1772 Dublin - 4 October 1842 Highfield Park, Hampshire, was an Irish British Army general.
Cole was commissioned a cornet in 1787, and served in the West Indies, Ireland, and Egypt. He served as brigadier general in Sicily and commanded the 1st Brigade at the Battle of Maida on the 4th July 1806. In 1808 he was promoted to major general, to lieutenant general in 1813 and full general in 1830.
He was colonel of the 27th Foot, commanded the 4th Division in the Peninsular War under Wellington, and was wounded at the Battle of Albuera in which he played a decisive part.
For having served with distinction in the battles of Maida, Albuhera, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Orthes and Toulouse, he received the Cross with four clasps.
He was Member of Parliament for the family seat of Enniskillen from 1797 to 1800, represented Fermanagh in the British House of Commons in 1803, and was appointed Governor of Mauritius in 1823. He left in 1828 to take up the post of Governor of the Cape Colony which position he filled until 1833. Cole was invested as a Knight Grand Cross, Order of the Bath on 2 January 1815.
He is commemorated in Enniskillen by a statue surmounting a 30m high column in Fort Hill Park, carried out by the Irish sculptor, Terence Farrell.
Family
Cole was born the second son of an Irish peer, William Willoughby Cole, 1st Earl of Enniskillen and Anne Lowry-Corry, and was married on 15 June 1815 to Frances Harris (d. 1 November 1847), daughter of James Harris, 1st Earl of Malmesbury, for whom Malmesbury, Western Cape is named, and Harriet Mary, his wife. Frances Cole played a prominent part in social philanthropy in the Cape and worked towards having Coloured children taught useful trades. Colesberg, a town in the Cape, is named after him, as is Sir Lowry's Pass near Cape Town.
William Willoughby Cole, 1st Earl of Enniskillen (d 22.05.1803) x (03.11.1763) Anne Corry (d 09.1802) daughter of Galbraith Lowry-Corry of Tyrone
- John Willoughby Cole, 2nd Earl of Enniskillen (b 23.03.1768, d 31.03.1840) had issue x (15.10.1805) Charlotte Paget (d 26.01.1817), daughter of Henry Bayly, later Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge
- Sir Galbraith Lowry Cole (b 01.05.1772, d 04.10.1842, General) x (15.06.1815) Frances Harris (d 01.11.1847), daughter of
James Harris, 1st Earl of Malmesbury
- Florence Mary Georgiana Cole, daughter
- Colonel Arthur Lowry Cole, eldest son, (24 August 1817 - 30 March 1885)
- Sarah Cole (d 14.03.1833) x (1790) Owen Wynne
- Elizabeth Anne Cole (d 1807) x (1788) Richard Magennis (d 06.03.1831, Colonel)
- Florence Cole (d 01.03.1862) x (1797) Blaney Townley Balfour of Townley Hall (d 22.12.1856)
- Henrietta Frances Cole (b 22.06.1784, d 02.07.1848) x (20.07.1805) Thomas Philip Robinson, later Weddell, later de Grey, 2nd Earl de Grey (b 08.12.1781, d 14.11.1759)
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