Andrew Cole, 7th Earl of Enniskillen

Andrew John Gilbraith Cole, 7th Earl of Enniskillen (born 28 April 1942) is a British peer and landowner in Kenya. He was styled Viscount Cole from 1963 to 1989, after which he was a member of the House of Lords until 1999, although he rarely attended.

He is a former managing director of Kenya Airways.

Early life The only son of David Lowry Cole, 6th Earl of Enniskillen and his wife Sonia Mary Syers, in which he spent five years, rising to the rank of Captain.

On 30 May 1989, he succeeded as Earl of Enniskillen (an Irish peerage created in 1789), and also as Viscount Enniskillen (1776), Baron Mountflorence (1760), and Baron Grinstead (1815). The last of these is in the peerage of the United Kingdom and gave him a seat as of right in the House of Lords until November 1999. where he has a large estate.

The heir presumptive to the peerages is Enniskillen's cousin Berkeley Arthur Cole (born 1949), the eldest son of Arthur Gerald Cole, a younger brother of the 6th Earl. Berkeley Arthur Cole is married to Cecilia Ridley, a daughter of Matthew White Ridley, 4th Viscount Ridley, and they have two sons.

Publication Andrew Enniskillen, The Cole Legacy (Barnes & Noble, 2022)