Richard Colvin (British Army officer)


Brigadier-General Sir Richard Beale Colvin, was a British officer and Conservative Party politician.

Biography

Colvin was the elder son of Beale Blackwell Colvin, of Pishiobury, Hertfordshire. He was eucated at Eton and at Trinity College, Cambridge, from where he received a Bachelor of Arts in 1879.
He served as High Sheriff of Essex in 1890, and was a Major in the Loyal Suffolk Hussars, a Yeomanry regiment based in Bury St Edmunds..
Following the outbreak of the Second Boer War in late 1899, Colvin was on 7 February 1900 appointed Deputy-Assistant Adjutant-General in the Imperial Yeomanry, responsible for corps raised outside the head-quarters of the existing yeomanry regiments. With the expansion of the number of Imperial Yeomanry regiments, he was a month later, on 14 March 1900, re-assigned and appointed in command of the 20th Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry, which set out for South Africa later that month. For his services during the war, he was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in November 1900.
He was later awarded the Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1911, and was promoted to a Knight Commander of the Order.
Colvin was elected as Member of Parliament for Epping at an unopposed by-election in 1917, after Epping's Conservative MP Amelius Lockwood was ennobled as Baron Lambourne. He was re-elected in 1918 and 1922, and retired from the House of Commons at the 1923 general election

Family

Covin married, on 26 June 1895, Lady Gwendoline Audrey Adeline Brudenell Rous, daughter of John Rous, 2nd Earl of Stradbroke and Augusta Bonham.
They had two children:
They lived at Monkhams, Waltham Abbey.
His portrait, describing him as a brigadier general, is held at the National Portrait Gallery.