John Cole, 1st Baron Mountflorence

{{Short description|Irish peer and politician}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2020}}{{Infobox officeholder

| 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 = Parliament of Ireland{{!}}Irish

| term_start = 1730

| term_end = 1760

| successor = William Willoughby Cole

| honorific_prefix = The Right Honourable

| name = The Lord Mountflorence

| children = William Cole, 1st Earl of Enniskillen

| parents = John Cole (father)

}}

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John Cole, 1st Baron Mountflorence (13 October 1709 – 30 November 1767) was an Irish peer and politician.{{cite book |title= 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}}

Born in Dublin, he was the son of John Cole, Member of Parliament for Enniskillen. In 1726 he was admitted to Trinity College Dublin,Alumni Dublinenses : a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593–1860), George Dames Burtchaell/Thomas Ulick Sadleir p. 163: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935 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 Willoughby Cole, who was created Earl of Enniskillen in 1789.