The Lord Clydesmuir | |
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Governor of Bombay | |
In office 24 March 1943 – 5 January 1948 | |
Preceded by | Roger Lumley |
Succeeded by | Raja Maharaj Singh |
Secretary of State for Scotland | |
In office 6 May 1938 – 10 May 1940 | |
Prime Minister | Neville Chamberlain |
Preceded by | Walter Elliot |
Succeeded by | Ernest Brown |
Financial Secretary to the Treasury | |
In office 29 October 1936 – 6 May 1938 | |
Prime Minister | Stanley Baldwin Neville Chamberlain |
Preceded by | William Morrison |
Succeeded by | Euan Wallace |
Under-Secretary of State for Scotland | |
In office 28 November 1935 – 29 October 1936 | |
Prime Minister | Stanley Baldwin |
Preceded by | Noel Skelton |
Succeeded by | Henry Scrymgeour-Wedderburn |
Member of Parliament for Midlothian and Peebles Northern | |
In office 30 May 1929 – January 1943 | |
Preceded by | Andrew Clarke |
Succeeded by | Sir David King Murray |
Personal details | |
Born | 13 February 1894 Cleland, Lanarkshire, Scotland |
Died | 31 October 1954 (aged 60) |
Spouse | Agnes Anne Bilsland |
Children | 3, including Ronald Colville, 2nd Baron Clydesmuir |
Alma mater | Charterhouse, Trinity College, Cambridge |
David John Colville, 1st Baron Clydesmuir, GCIE, PC (13 February 1894 – 31 October 1954), was a Scottish Unionist politician, colonial administrator, and industrialist. He was director of his family's steel and iron business, David Colville & Sons as well as the final Governor of Bombay.