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Charles Colville
General Sir Charles Colville GCB, GCH (7 August 1770 – 27 March 1843) was a British Army officer who served during the Napoleonic Wars. He was an ensign in 1781. He served in the West Indies from 1791 to 1797 and while serving there was promoted to lieutenant-colonel (1796). He helped to suppress the Irish Rebellion of 1798. He was in Egypt in 1801 and fought against Martinique in 1809. He commanded brigade, and afterwards division, in the Peninsular War from 1810 until 1814. During the Waterloo Campaign of 1815 he commanded a division in Belgium and the same year was awarded a K.C.B.. In 1819 he was promoted to lieutenant-general and served as commander-in-chief at Bombay from 1819 until 1825. He was governor of Mauritius from 1828 until 1834. He was promoted to general in 1837.
==Biography==
Charles Colville was the third son of John Colville, 8th Lord Colville of Culross and Amelia Webber, in the peerage of Scotland, was born on 7 August 1770.〔(Peerage.com ) accessed 2 August 2008〕 In 1818 Colville married Jane Mure 27 May 1843), eldest daughter of William Mure of Caldwell. He had two sons, Charles John (23 Nov 1818–1 Jul 1903), William James (9 Mar 1827–16 Oct 1903) (in 1850 a lieutenant in the Rifle Brigade—the 95th), and two daughters, Catherine Dorothea ( d. 26 Feb 1904) and Georgina Clementina (d. 18 Mar 1871). Upon the death of his eldest brother, Admiral John Colville, 9th Lord Colville of Culross, in 1849 (without heirs),〔 the title devolved to his first son, Charles, and the honors to all his children.〔 ''Bulletins and Other State Intelligence'', London, 1851. (pp. 122–123. )〕 His eldest son was, in 1850, a major in the artillery.〔Bulletins and other state Intelligence, London, 1851, p. 435.〕
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