Charles Edward Hungerford Atholl Colston, 1st Baron Roundway (16 May 1854 – 17 June 1925) was a British Conservative Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1892 to 1906, and was later elevated to the peerage, taking his seat in the House of Lords.
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Colston was the son of Edward Colston, of Roundway Park in Devizes, Wiltshire, and his wife Louisa, daughter of Rev. Edward Murray from Northolt in Middlesex.[1]
in 1879 he married Rosalind Emma Gostling-Murray, daughter of Col. Charles Gostling-Murray of Hounslow.[1]
He was educated at Eton College and at Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated in 1876 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree.[1]
He was High Sheriff of Wiltshire in 1885,[2] and became a Deputy Lieutenant of Wiltshire in the same year.[3] He was also a Justice of the Peace for Wiltshire.[1]
At the 1885 general election he stood unsuccessfully in Bristol North.[4] He was elected at the 1892 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Thornbury,[5] and held the seat until his defeat at the 1906 general election by the Liberal candidate Athelstan Rendall.[6]
He was elevated to the peerage in July 1916, as Baron Roundway of Devizes.[7]
| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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| Preceded by John William Plunkett |
Member of Parliament for Thornbury 1892 – 1906 |
Succeeded by Athelstan Rendall |
| Peerage of the United Kingdom | ||
| New creation | Baron Roundway 1916–1925 |
Succeeded by Edward Murray Colston |