Charles Colville, 1st Viscount Colville of Culross
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The Right Honourable The Viscount Colville of Culross KT GCVO PC |
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"A good fellow". Colville as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, July 1873.
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| Master of the Buckhounds | |
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In office 10 July 1866 – 1 December 1868 |
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| Monarch | Victoria |
| Prime Minister |
The Earl of Derby Benjamin Disraeli |
| Preceded by | The Earl of Cork |
| Succeeded by | The Earl of Cork |
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| Born | 23 November 1818 |
| Died | 1 July 1903 (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.
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.
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. He served under Lord Derby as Chief Equerry and Clerk Marshal from February to December 1852 and again from 1858 to 1859 and under Derby and subsequently Benjamin Disraeli as Master of the Buckhounds from 1866 to 1868. In 1866 he was sworn of the Privy Council. He was later Lord Chamberlain to the Princess of Wales from 1873 to 1901 and was appointed in the same capacity to her as Queen Alexandra from 1901 to 1903.
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 and created Baron Colville of Culross, in the County of Perth, in 1885, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. In 1902 he was further honoured with a Viscountcy in the Coronation Honours list, when he was made Viscount Colville of Culross, in the County of Perth, on 15 July 1902.
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