Sir John Cole, 1st Baronet
Sir John Cole, 1st Baronet (died 1691) was an Anglo-Irish politician. 
London
He was the second son of Sir William Cole MP, (died 1653) a key figure in the Plantation of Ulster, and his second wife Catherine Parsons, daughter of Sir Lawrence Parsons of  Birr Castle, Baron of the  Court of Exchequer (Ireland) and Anne Malham. William was a Londoner, the only son of Emmanuel Cole, from a family which originated in  Devon. Sir Arthur Ingram, the investor, landowner and politician was a cousin through William's mother, Margaret Ingram.

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. 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, by whom he had eleven children. Cole was succeeded in his title by his eldest son, Arthur Cole, who was made Baron Ranelagh in 1715. Arthur had no issue and both titles died with him.
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