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{{Short description|British nobleman, Conservative politician and courtier}}
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| honorific-prefix = [[The Right Honourable]]
| name = The Viscount Colville of Culross
| honorific-suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KT|GCVO|PC}}
| image = Lord Colville of Culross Vanity Fair 26 July 1873.jpg
| imagesize = 200px
| caption = "A good fellow". Colville as caricatured by "Spy" ([[Leslie Ward]]) in ''[[Vanity Fair (British magazine)|Vanity Fair]]'', July 1873.
| order1 = [[Master of the Buckhounds]]
| term_start1 = 10 July 1866
| term_end1 = 1 December 1868
| monarch1 = [[Queen Victoria|Victoria]]
| primeminister1 = [[Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby|The Earl of Derby]] <br> [[Benjamin Disraeli]]
| predecessor1 = [[Richard Boyle, 9th Earl of Cork|The Earl of Cork]]
| successor1 = [[Richard Boyle, 9th Earl of Cork|The Earl of Cork]]
|birth_name=Charles John Colville
| birth_date = 23 November 1818
| birth_place =
| death_date = {{death-date and age|1 July 1903|23 November 1818}}
| death_place =
| nationality = [[British people|British]]
| party = [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]
| alma_mater =
| spouse = Hon. Cecile Catherine Mary Carrington
| children = [[Stanley Colville]]
| father = [[Charles Colville]]
}}
'''Charles John Colville, 1st Viscount Colville of Culross''', {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|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 Party (UK)|Conservative]] politician, [[courtier]], and painter.
==Background and education==
Colville was the son of General the Honourable [[Charles Colville|Sir Charles Colville]] and the grandson of [[Baron Colville of Culross|John Colville, 8th Lord Colville of Culross]]. He was educated at [[Harrow School|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 [[List of Scottish representative peers|Scottish representative peer]] in 1851.<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20080607022617/http://www.leighrayment.com/reppeers/reppeersscotland.htm leighrayment.com Representative Peers – Scotland]}}</ref> He served under [[Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby|Lord Derby]] as [[Chief Equerry and Clerk Marshal]] from February<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=21297 |date=2 March 1852 |page=671 }}</ref> to December 1852<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=21398 |date=4 January 1853 |page=1 }}</ref> and again from 1858<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=22106 |date=2 March 1858 |page=1207 }}</ref> to 1859<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=22281 |date=1 July 1859 |page=2550 }}</ref> and under Derby and subsequently [[Benjamin Disraeli]] as [[Master of the Buckhounds]] from 1866<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=23139 |date=17 July 1866 |page=4035 }}</ref> to 1868.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=23450 |date=15 December 1868 |page=6654 }}</ref> In 1866 he was sworn of the [[Privy Council of the United Kingdom|Privy Council]].<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=23136 |date=11 July 1866 |page=3981 }}</ref> He was later Lord Chamberlain to the [[Alexandra of Denmark|Princess of Wales]] from 1873<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=23940 |date=21 January 1873 |page=270 }}</ref> to 1901 and was appointed in the same capacity to her as Queen Alexandra from 1901<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=27292 |date=8 March 1901 |page=1648 }}</ref> to 1903.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=27602 |date=2 October 1903 |page=6027 }}</ref>
Colville was also Chairman of the [[Great Northern Railway (Great Britain)|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 [[Order of the Thistle|Knight of the Thistle]] in 1874<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20080607022445/http://www.leighrayment.com/orders/thistle.htm leighrayment.com Knights of the Thistle]}}</ref> and created '''Baron Colville of Culross''', in the County of Perth, in 1885, in the [[Peerage of the United Kingdom]].<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=25544 |date=29 December 1885 |page=6300 }}</ref> In 1902 he was further honoured with a Viscountcy in the [[1902 Coronation Honours|Coronation Honours list]], when he was made '''Viscount Colville of Culross''', in the County of Perth, on 15 July 1902.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=27455 |date=18 July 1902 |page=4586 }}</ref>
==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 [[Stanley Colville|Sir Stanley Colville]], who rose to prominence as a Navy officer. Another son, George, was the father of [[Jock Colville|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.
==References==
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==External links==
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