Baron Roundway, of
Devizes
Devizes is a market town and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. It developed around Devizes Castle, an 11th-century Norman architecture, Norman castle, and received a charter in 1141. The castle was besieged during the Anarchy, a 12th-century ...
in the
County of Wilts, was a title in the
Peerage of the United Kingdom
The Peerage of the United Kingdom is one of the five Peerages in the United Kingdom. It comprises most peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Acts of Union 1800, Acts of Union in 1801, when it replaced the ...
. It was created on 30 June 1916 for
Charles Colston
Charles Edward Hungerford Atholl Colston, 1st Baron Roundway (16 May 1854 – 17 June 1925) was a British Conservative Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1892 to 1906, and was later elevated to the peerage, taking his seat i ...
,
Conservative
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Member of Parliament
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for
Thornbury from 1892 to 1906. He was succeeded by his only son, the second Baron. He was a
Brigadier-General
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in the Army and fought in the
Second Boer War
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and in the
First World War
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.
He had no male issue and on his death on 29 March 1944 the barony became extinct.
The family seat was
Roundway Park
Roundway Park (or New Park) was a 750-hectare (1,584-acre) estate (house), estate in the former parish of Roundway in the centre of the English county of Wiltshire. The estate was about northeast of the town of Devizes and included a English cou ...
, near
Devizes
Devizes is a market town and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. It developed around Devizes Castle, an 11th-century Norman architecture, Norman castle, and received a charter in 1141. The castle was besieged during the Anarchy, a 12th-century ...
,
Wiltshire
Wiltshire (; abbreviated Wilts) is a historic and ceremonial county in South West England with an area of . It is landlocked and borders the counties of Dorset to the southwest, Somerset to the west, Hampshire to the southeast, Gloucestershire ...
.
Barons Roundway (1916)
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Charles Edward Hungerford Atholl Colston, 1st Baron Roundway (1854–1925)
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Edward Murray Colston, 2nd Baron Roundway
Brigadier (United Kingdom), Brigadier-General Edward Murray Colston, 2nd Baron Roundway (31 December 1880 – 29 March 1944) was a British Army officer in the Second Boer War and World War I.
Early life
Edward Colston was born on 31 December 18 ...
(1880–1944)
References
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Extinct baronies in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
Noble titles created in 1916
Peerages created for UK MPs