John Colville, 1st Baron Clydesmuir

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David John Colville, 1st Baron Clydesmuir (13 February 1894 – 31 October 1954) was a Scottish Tory politician.

He sat as a Member of Parliament for Midlothian and Peebles Northern from 1929 to 1943 and served in the National Government as Parliamentary Secretary to the Department of Overseas Trade from 1931 to 1945, as Under-Secretary of State for Scotland from 1935 to 1936, as Financial Secretary to the Treasury from 1936 to 1938 and as Secretary of State for Scotland from 1938 until 1940.

Colville left Parliament in 1943 to become Governor of Bombay, a post he held until 1947. On his return from India he was raised to the peerage as Baron Clydesmuir, of Braidwood in the County of Lanarkshire. From 1950 to 1954 Lord Clydesmuir served as a Governor of the BBC.

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Torrance, David, The Scottish Secretaries (Birlinn 2006)

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by: Andrew Bathgate Clarke	Member of Parliament for Midlothian and Peebles Northern 1929–1943	Succeeded by: David King Murray
Political offices
Preceded by: William Morrison	Financial Secretary to the Treasury 1936–1938	Succeeded by: Euan Wallace
Preceded by: Walter Elliot	Secretary of State for Scotland 1938–1940	Succeeded by: Ernest Brown
Preceded by: Viscount Lumley	Governor of Bombay 1943-47	Succeeded by: Raja Maharaj Singh
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by: New Creation	Baron Clydesmuir	Succeeded by: Ronald John Bilsland Colville