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General Sir Galbraith Lowry Cole GCB (1 May 1772 – 4 October 1842) was an Anglo-Irish British Army officer and politician. Early life. Cole was the second son of an Irish peer, William Cole, 1st Earl of Enniskillen (1 March 1736 – 22 May 1803), and Anne Lowry-Corry (d.
David Lowry Cole, 6th Earl of Enniskillen (1918–1989), formerly Captain David Lowry Cole, M.B.E., had spent much of his life in the Colony of Kenya, having been elected a member of the Legislative Council of Kenya in the early 1960s, just before independence.
Sir Galbraith Lowry Cole served in Sicily with the 27th Inniskillings (1806 to 1809), in the Peninsula as Commander of the 4th Division (1809 to 1815) and with the army of occupation at Cambrai...
- 1752-1843
- PRO 30/43
- The National Archives, Kew
- Sir Galbraith Lowry Cole: Papers
Edited Maude Lowry Cole. Naval & Military Press, 2014 - History - 276 pages. Cole was commissioned a cornet in 1787, and served in the West Indies, Ireland, and Egypt. He served as brigadier...
Lowry Cole was appointed commander of the 4 th Division in Portugal and Spain, and was one of the Duke of Wellington’s senior commanders. He held the rank of Major General, and was then promoted to Lieutenant General in 1813.
Lieut. General the Hon. Sir Galbraith Lowry Cole, The British Gallery of Contemporary Portraits | Museum number 1838,0425.124 |
Sir Lowry Cole (as he was known) refused the governorships of Corfu (1815) and Ceylon (1816), but began a new career in 1823 as governor of Mauritius, the Indian Ocean colony seized from France in 1810.
