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William Cole (planter)

Sir William Cole (c.1571–1653) was an English soldier and politician, who participated in the Plantation of Ulster and established a settler town at Enniskillen, County Fermanagh.[1] Despite his initial loyalty to the Stuarts, he was a leading English Parliamentarian figure in the Irish Confederate Wars of the 1640s.[2]

  1. ^ "Cole, Sir William". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/5859. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ^ Clavin, Terry (October 2009). "Cole, Sir William". Dictionary of Irish Biography. Retrieved 19 February 2023.

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