Charles Colville, 1st Viscount Colville of Culross

"A good fellow"
Colville as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, July 1873

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 1885, was a British nobleman, politician and courtier.

He was the son of Hon. General Sir Charles Colville GCB GCH, (1770 – 1843), a soldier who saw action near the Battle of Waterloo, and the grandson of John Colville, 8th Lord Colville of Culross. He was educated at Harrow and succeeded his uncle in 1849 as Lord Colville of Culross. In 1853 he married the Hon. Cecile Catherine Mary Carrington, eldest daughter of Lord Carrington. Their second son was Stanley Colville (1861-1939), who rose to prominence as a Navy officer. A grandson via another son was Jock Colville (1915 - 1987), civil servant and memoirist.

Charles John Colville served as a Captain in the 11th Hussars and was President of the Honourable Artillery Company. He was a representative peer for Scotland from 1851-1885, and served in government as Chief Equerry and Clerk Marshal to Her Majesty the Queen in 1852 and from 1858-1859 and as Master of the Buckhounds from 1866-1868. He was Chairman of the Great Northern Railway Company from 1872-1895, a director of the Central London Railway at its opening in 1900, Lord Chamberlain to The Princess of Wales from 1873 to 1901 and to her as Queen Alexandra from 1901 to 1903.

He was created a Knight of the Thistle in 1874, a Baron in 1885 and a Viscount in 1902, both in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

Party political offices
Preceded by The Earl Nelson	Conservative Chief Whip in the House of Lords 1852 – c. 1870	Succeeded by The Lord Skelmersdale
Political offices
Preceded by Lord Alfred Paget	Chief Equerry and Clerk Marshal 1852	Succeeded by Lord Alfred Paget
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 Colville
	Baron Colville of Culross 1885 – 1903
Peerage of Scotland
Preceded by John Colville	Lord Colville of Culross 1849 – 1903	Succeeded by Charles Colville