Mark Colville, 4th Viscount Colville of Culross

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John Mark Alexander Colville, 4th Viscount Colville of Culross , QC (born July 19, 1933 in Victoria , British Columbia , † April 8, 2010 in Norfolk ) was a British attorney , judge , politician and former owner of Worlingham Hall .

life and career

He was born in 1933 to Charles Colville, 3rd Viscount Colville of Culross , and Kathleen Myrtle Gale. On March 14, 1945, at the age of 12, he inherited the title of Viscount Colville of Culross after his father died while serving in the military. Colville served in the Grenadier Guards and achieved the rank of lieutenant . Colville attended Rugby School in Warwickshire and the New College at the University of Oxford , where he Jura studied. He graduated in 1957 with a Bachelor of Arts from 1963 and made a Master of Arts .

In 1960 he was admitted to Lincoln's Inn , one of the four English bar associations ( Inns of Court ) for barristers in England . He was later awarded the Buchanan Prize . In 1978 he became crown attorney , 1986 presiding judge ( Bencher ).

He worked in the private sector and first became director of British Electric Traction , the governing body of Boulton & Paul , in 1961 . Colville bought Worlingham Hall in 1963 , but sold it in the late 1990s. Previously, he had in the Georgian style built property, with a Grade I at the state monument list of Britain ( listed building have been performed), renovate to a high standard. He moved to West Lexham , near Swaffham .

From 1968 to 1972 he was a member of the board of directors of the University of East Anglia . From 1972 to 1974 he was under Prime Minister Edward Heath Minister of State ( Minister of State ) in the Home Office . Between 1980 and 1983 he was the British representative at the UN Human Rights Commission and from 1983 to 1987 Special Rapporteur for Guatemala and Chairman of the Mental Health Act Commission . From 1981 to 1984 he was Managing Director ( Executive Director ) of the British Electric Traction Company , and from 1968 to 1984 Chief of Staff ( Chief of Staff to General Policies ). From 1984 to 1990 he was Chairman of the Alcohol Education and Research Council . From 1988 to 1992 he headed the Parole Board for England and Wales , where his second wife was previously a member.

He was rapporteur ( recorder ) 1990-1993 and 1993-1999 Judge ( Judge ) for the Judicial District of Southeastern . He was director of the Securities and Future Authority until 1993. From 1995 to 2000 he was a member of the UN Human Rights Committee and from 2001 was Assistant Surveillance Commissioner . Colville was a member of the Queen's Body Guard for Scotland of the Royal Company of Archers . In 1997 he moved to Norfolk . He was also chairman of the UN working group on disappeared persons . It was in 1998 by the University of East Anglia with an honorary degree as Doctor of Civil Law honored.

In 2000 he spoke out against the idea that a 50 hectare quarry near where he lived should become a landfill site . This so-called Lexham Revolt ( Lexham Revolt ) caused the building planning authority to withdraw, partly thanks to the successful objections of Colville and his wife, barrister Margaret Colville, Viscountess Colville of Culross .

Membership in the House of Lords

He was a member of the House of Lords since 1954. Colville was a crossbencher in the House of Lords . In 1999 he was elected one of the hereditary peers who remained in the House of Lords under the House of Lords Act 1999 .

He was a member of several special committees of the House of Lords ( Lords Select Committees ). He was a member of the Joint Select Committee on Consolidation of Bills from 1998 to 2005 and since 2006 . From 1999 to 2004 he was a member of the Liaison Special Committee . He participated in debates in the House of Lords until a few weeks before his death.

In a by-election of the eligible Crossbench Hereditary Peers in June 2010, Nicholas Le Poer Trench, 9th Earl of Clancarty , was elected as Colville's successor.

family

Colville was married twice. On October 4, 1958, he married Mary Elizabeth Webb-Bowen. After divorcing in 1973, he married Margaret Colville, Viscountess Colville of Culross, in August 1974. He had four sons with his first wife and one son with his second wife.

death

Colville died on April 8, 2010 at the age of 76. His wife and five sons survived him. His eldest son, Charles Townshend Colville, 5th Viscount Colville of Culross , inherited his titles.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ His Hon The Viscount Colville of Culross, QC Mark Colville at Debretts (available online)
  2. ↑ Viscount dies, aged 76  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Obituary in: Beccles and Bungay Journal, April 23, 2010@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.becclesandbungayjournal.co.uk  
  3. ↑ Death of Viscount Colville of Culross Death report on the House of Lords website
  4. ↑ Crossbench Hereditary Peers' By-election, June 2010: Result Official announcement by the House of Lords
  5. ↑ John Mark Alexander Colville, 4th Viscount Colville of Culross on thepeerage.com , accessed August 20, 2015.
  6. ↑ Mark COLVILLE in The Times April 14, 2010
predecessor Office successor
Charles Colville Viscount Colville of Culross
1945-2010 		Charles Colville
personal data
SURNAME Colville, Mark, 4th Viscount Colville of Culross
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Colville of Culross, John Mark Alexander Colville, 4th Viscount (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British peer, politician, lawyer and judge
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Victoria , British Columbia
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 2010
Place of death Norfolk