Charles Colville, 1st Viscount Colville of Culross

The Right Honourable
The Viscount Colville of Culross
KT GCVO PC

"A good fellow". Colville as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, July 1873.
Master of the Buckhounds
In office
10 July 1866  1 December 1868
Monarch Victoria
Prime Minister The Earl of Derby
Benjamin Disraeli
Preceded by The Earl of Cork
Succeeded by The Earl of Cork
Personal details
Born 23 November 1818
Died 1 July 1903 (1903-08) (aged 84)
Nationality British
Political party Conservative
Spouse(s) Hon. Cecile Catherine Mary Carrington

Charles John Colville, 1st Viscount Colville of Culross KT GCVO PC (23 November 1818 – 1 July 1903), known as The Lord Colville of Culross between 1849 and 1902, was a British nobleman, Conservative politician and courtier.

Background and education

Colville was the son of General the Honourable Sir Charles Colville and the grandson of John Colville, 8th Lord Colville of Culross. He was educated at Harrow.

Career

Colville served as a captain in the 11th Hussars. He succeeded his uncle in the lordship of Colville of Culross 1849 and was elected a Scottish Representative Peer in 1851.[1] He served under Lord Derby as Chief Equerry and Clerk Marshal from February[2] to December 1852[3] and again from 1858[4] to 1859[5] and under Derby and subsequently Benjamin Disraeli as Master of the Buckhounds from 1866[6] to 1868.[7] In 1866 he was sworn of the Privy Council.[8] He was later Lord Chamberlain to the Princess of Wales from 1873[9] to 1901 and was appointed in the same capacity to her as Queen Alexandra from 1901[10] to 1903.[11]

Colville was also Chairman of the Great Northern Railway Company from 1872 to 1895, a director of the Central London Railway at its opening in 1900 and President of the Honourable Artillery Company. He was made a Knight of the Thistle in 1874[12] and created Baron Colville of Culross, in the County of Perth, in 1885, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.[13] In 1902 he was further honoured when he was made Viscount Colville of Culross, in the County of Perth.[14]

Family

Lord Colville of Culross married the Honourable Cecile Catherine Mary Carrington, eldest daughter of Robert Carrington, 2nd Baron Carrington, in 1853. Their second son was Sir Stanley Colville, who rose to prominence as a Navy officer. Another son, George, was the father of Sir Jock Colville, civil servant and memoirist. Lord Colville of Culross died in July 1903, aged 84, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Charles.

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Political offices
Preceded by
Lord Alfred Paget
Chief Equerry and Clerk Marshal
February–December 1852
Succeeded by
Lord Alfred Paget
Chief Equerry and Clerk Marshal
1858–1859
Preceded by
The Earl of Cork
Master of the Buckhounds
1866–1868
Succeeded by
The Earl of Cork
Peerage of the United Kingdom
New creation Viscount Colville of Culross
1902–1903
Succeeded by
Charles Robert William Colville
Baron Colville of Culross
1885–1903
Peerage of Scotland
Preceded by
John Colville
Lord Colville of Culross
1849–1903
Succeeded by
Charles Robert William Colville


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