Horace de Vere Cole
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William Horace de Vere Cole was an eccentric prankster born in Ballincollig, County Cork, Ireland. His most famous prank was the Dreadnought hoax where he and several others in blackface, pretending to be an Abyssinian prince and his entourage,... Wikipedia
Born: May 5, 1881, Ballincollig, Ireland
Died: February 25, 1936 (age 54 years), Paris, France
Siblings: Mary de Vere
Parents: William Utting Cole and Mary de Vere
Partner: Denise Ann Marie Jose Lynch Daly (1918–) and Mavis Wheeler
Great-grandparents: Mary Rice, James Hardiman Burke, Anne O'Hara, and more