\"1st Viscount Colville of Culross\" Charles Colville Signed Album Page For Sale

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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 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[10] 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 1874and 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. 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.