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Up for sale a RARE! "1st Viscount Colville of Culross" Charles Colville Signed Album Page.
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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 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.
