Colville, David John, Sir, 1894-1954, 1st Baron Clydesmuir, politician and colonial administrator
1914-1918 served in the First World War with 6th Battalion The Cameronians; 1919-1926 councillor for Lanarkshire; 1920s served on board of David Colville & Sons [the family steel firm]; 1929-1943 MP for Midlothian and Peeblesshire North; 1931-1935 parliamentary secretary to the overseas trade department; 1932 lieutenant-colonel in the Territorial Army; 1935-1936 under-secretary of state for Scotland; 1936 privy councillor; 1936-1938 financial secretary to the Treasury; 1938-1940 Secretary of State for Scotland; 1943-1948 Governor of Bombay; 1943 GCIE; 1945, 1946 and 1947 acting Viceroy and Governor-General of India; 1948 baronetcy; 1950-1954 governor of the BBC; 1952-1954 lord lieutenant of Lanarkshire.
Epithet: politician and colonial administrator
Title: 1st Baron Clydesmuir
British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001477.0x000120
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| referencedIn | Papers of Sir Roger Lumley, Governor of Bombay 1937-43, 1937-1968 | British Library | |
| referencedIn | William Francis Hare papers., 1943-1947 | British Library |
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Person
Birth 1894
Death 1954
