Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Colgrain

The Lord Colgrain in 1946

Colin Frederick Campbell, 1st Baron Colgrain (13 June 1866 – 3 November 1954), was a Scottish banker.

He was educated at Eton College.[1]

He was President of the British Bankers' Association from 1938 to 1946 and was also a Director of the National Provincial Bank and of London Assurance. On 28 January 1946 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Colgrain, of Everlands in the County of Kent.[2]

Lord Colgrain married Lady Angela Mary Alice, daughter of Henry Ryder, 4th Earl of Harrowby, in 1890. She died in 1939.[3] Colgrain died in November 1954, aged 88, and was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son Donald.

Coat of arms of Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Colgrain
Crest
A boar’s head erect and erased Azure issuing from a wreath of myrtle leaved and flowered Proper.
Escutcheon
Gyronny of eight Or and Sable on a chief Azure a bezant between two crescents of the first.
Supporters
On the dexter side a horse Argent and on the sinister side a boar Azure.
Motto
Fac Et Spera [4]

References

  1. ^ 'COLGRAIN', Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016
  2. ^ "No. 37461". The London Gazette. 8 February 1946. p. 864.
  3. ^ "Lady Angela Mary Alice Campbell (née Ryder) (1863-1939), Daughter of 4th Earl of Harrowby; wife of 1st Baron Colgrain". National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 9 August 2021.
  4. ^ Burke's Peerage. 1949.

Notes

Peerage of the United Kingdom
New creation Baron Colgrain
1946–1954 		Succeeded by