Search results
Captain Reginald Berkeley Cole (26 November 1882 - 27 April 1925) was a prominent Anglo-Irish aristocrat, soldier, and white settler in Kenya. He is notable as the founder of the Muthaiga Club in Nairobi .
Reginald Berkeley Cole (1882-1925), an Anglo-Irish aristocrat from Ulster (being a son of the 4th Earl of Enniskillen), was a veteran of the Boer War, a possessor of a sly wit who affected a dandy's persona in the Kenya colony.
Hon Reginald Berkeley Cole, died of a heart attack on 21st April 1925, on the steps of his farmhouse, aged 43 and is buried, at his request, on the edge of the Naro Moru river beside the grave of a loyal servant.
6 de nov. de 2019 · This chapter explores an early twentieth-century connection from Ireland to British East Africa in an account of Florence, Galbraith and Berkeley Cole—all children of the fourth Earl of Enniskillen—who settled in the protectorate during the years leading...
Galbraith’s regiment saw some action at Uniondale but was mostly exer-cised by chasing down rogue Boer units across the Transvaal; Berkeley was put to work on the more demoralising task of farm clearances, a legacy of Lord Roberts’ punitive strategy against Boer civilians.
Cole was born into the Ascendancy, Ireland's old Anglo-Irish aristocracy. From a prominent Ulster family, he was the third son of The 4th Earl of Enniskillen (1845-1924) and his wealthy Scottish wife, Charlotte Marion Baird. His younger brother was Reginald Berkeley Cole.
In the opening decades of the twentieth century a close connection was forged between Ireland and British East Africa (or the Colony and Protectorate of Kenya as it became in 1920) by three of the children of the fourth Earl of Enniskillen: Florence Cole (b. 1878), Galbraith Lowry Cole (b. 1881) and Reginald Berkeley Cole (b. 1882).
