Mark Colville, 4th Viscount Colville of Culross

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QC
Colville's last speech in the Lords, two months before his death.
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
as a hereditary peer
1 March 1945[1] – 11 November 1999
Preceded byThe 3rd Viscount Colville of Culross
Succeeded bySeat abolished
as an elected hereditary peer
11 November 1999 – 8 April 2010
Preceded bySeat established
Succeeded byThe 9th Earl of Clancarty
Minister of State for Home Affairs
In office
21 April 1972 – 4 March 1974
MonarchElizabeth II
Prime MinisterEdward Heath
Preceded byThe Lord Windlesham
Succeeded byThe Lord Harris of Greenwich
Personal details
Born19 July 1933
Died8 April 2010(2010-04-08) (aged 76)
Political partyCrossbench
Alma materNew College, Oxford

John Mark Alexander Colville, 4th Viscount Colville of Culross,

QC (19 July 1933 – 8 April 2010[2]), was a British judge and politician. He was one of the 92 hereditary peers elected to remain in the House of Lords after the House of Lords Act 1999
.

The son of Charles Colville, 3rd Viscount Colville of Culross, he succeeded to his father's title in 1945, at the age of twelve.

He was educated at

Master of Arts
in 1963.

Colville served in the

Queen's Counsel in 1978 and a Bencher
in 1986.

Between 1980 and 1983, he was the representative of the United Kingdom to the

South Eastern Circuit from 1993 to 1999. From 1996 to 2000, he was a member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee
. From 2001 he served as Assistant Surveillance Commissioner.

Colville was married twice, first to Mary Elizabeth Webb-Bowen in 1958, and, after being divorced in 1973, to Margaret Birgitta Norton, in the following year. He had four sons, including his heir Charles, by his first wife, and one son by his second wife.[3]

He died at age 76 in 2010. His funeral was held at St Nicholas' Church, West Lexham.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Prayers (1954)". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). House of Lords. 26 July 1954.
  2. ^ "Death of Viscount Colville of Culross". parliament.uk. UK Parliament. 5 May 2010. Retrieved 26 April 2012.
  3. ^ "DodOnline - Political Biographies, Constituency & MP Profiles, News, Online Bookshop". Archived from the original on 8 February 2007. Retrieved 3 January 2007.
  4. ^ "COLVILLE OF CULROSS - Deaths Announcements". The Daily Telegraph. 14 April 2010. Archived from the original on 9 August 2011. Retrieved 26 April 2012.

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Preceded by Viscount Colville of Culross
1945–2010
Member of the House of Lords
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Peerage of Scotland
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