Charles Colville, 5th Viscount Colville of Culross

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Charles Colville, 5th Viscount Colville of Culross

Charles Mark Townshend Colville, 5th Viscount Colville of Culross (born September 5, 1959 in England ) is a British peer , television producer , director and politician .

life and career

Colville was born on September 5, 1959 to Mark Colville, 4th Viscount Colville of Culross and Mary Elizabeth Webb-Bowen. From his birth through 2010, he held the courtesy title of Master of Colville .

He attended rugby school in Rugby , Warwickshire . He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Durham University in Durham , County Durham . He lives in Halesworth , Suffolk (as of November 2012). After the death of his father, he inherited the title of Viscount Colville of Culross on April 8, 2010.

In the 1980s he was a journalist for Berrow's Worcester Journal . He moved there in 1983 after previously writing for the Ludlow Advertiser .

Colville is a producer and director for the BBC . He began his career in 1988 as a researcher for the television series Weekend World . In 2004 he first worked as a producer and director for the multi-part television documentary War at Sea . It wasn't until 2009 that part of the documentary The Incredible Human Journey , which dealt with Asia , followed, again in both roles . The documentation Nova followed in the same year .

In 2010 he made How Earth Made Us . In the period from 2009 to 2010 two episodes of the documentation Horizon were created . He also produced an episode of the 2010 documentary series The Normans . Colville released Orbit: Earth's Extraordinary Journey and Roundhead or Cavalier: Which One Are You? .

Membership in the House of Lords

After inheriting the title of his father after his death in 2010, he ran for the by-election for the late Geoffrey Russell, 4th Baron Ampthill , in which John Seymour, 19th Duke of Somerset landed in 2nd place, and became a member elected by the House of Lords . There he sits as a crossbencher . The official introduction to the House of Lords took place on September 5, 2011.

He gave his inaugural speech on November 3, 2011. In this he referred to unpaid internships in the media industry. On the website of the House of Lords, he names media, natural sciences and external affairs as topics of political interest.

  • September 2011: 5 days (out of 8)
  • October 2011: 9 days (out of 18)
  • November 2011: 10 days (out of 18)
  • December 2011: 2 days (out of 13)
  • January 2012: 10 days (out of 14)
  • February 2012: 7 days (out of 14)
  • March 2012: 11 days (out of 17)
  • April 2012: 0 days (out of 5)
  • May 2012: 5 days (out of 13)
  • June 2012: 5 days (out of 13)

His presence on meeting days is in the middle range.

family

Since Colville is not married and has no children, the heir is presumptive , so the likely title heir, his brother Richmond James Innys Colville (* 1961).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Charles Mark Townshend Colville, 5th Viscount Colville of Culross on thepeerage.com , accessed August 20, 2015.
  2. ↑ Former reporter is now a viscount article in Worcesternews from May 5, 2010
  3. ↑ Hereditary Peers' By-elections, July 2011: Results (PDF; 78 kB) Publication on the website of the House of Lords on July 20, 2011
  4. ↑ 3 Nov 2011: Column 1339 Minutes of the House of Lords meeting of 3 November 2011
  5. ↑ Lord Colville argues that relying on interns threatens vitality of creative industries ( Memento of the original from February 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Article in Exaro News from November 8, 2011  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.exaronews.com
  6. ^ House of Lords: Members 'expenses Members' expenses on the House of Lords website ; Retrieved November 11, 2012
predecessor Office successor
Mark Colville Viscount Colville of Culross
2010– 		current holder of the title
personal data
SURNAME Colville, Charles, 5th Viscount Colville of Culross
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Colville, Charles Mark Townsend Colville, 5th Viscount Colville of Culross (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British peer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH 5th September 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH England