Charles Edward Hungerford Atholl Colston, 1st Baron Roundway (16 May 1854 – 17 June 1925) was a British

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politician. He sat in the

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from 1892 to 1906, and was later elevated to the peerage, taking his seat in the

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Early life and family

Colston was the son of Edward Colston, of

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near

Devizes Devizes is a market town and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. It developed around Devizes Castle, an 11th-century Norman castle, and received a charter in 1141. The castle was besieged during the Anarchy, a 12th-century civil war between ...

, Wiltshire, and his wife Louisa, daughter of Rev. Edward Murray from

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in Middlesex. in 1879 he married Rosalind Emma Gostling-Murray, daughter of Col. Charles Gostling-Murray of

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Career

He was educated at

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and at Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated in 1876 with a

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(BA) degree. He was

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in 1885, and became a Deputy Lieutenant of Wiltshire in the same year. He was also a Justice of the Peace for Wiltshire. At the 1885 general election he stood unsuccessfully in Bristol North. He was elected at the 1892 general election as the

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(MP) for Thornbury, and held the seat until his defeat at the 1906 general election by the

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candidate Athelstan Rendall. He was elevated to the peerage in the

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, as

Baron Roundway Baron Roundway, of Devizes in the County of Wilts, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 30 June 1916 for Charles Colston, Conservative Member of Parliament for Thornbury from 1892 to 1906. He was succeeded by hi ...

of Devizes.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Roundway, Charles Colston, 1st Baron 1854 births 1925 deaths Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1892–1895 UK MPs 1895–1900 UK MPs 1900–1906 UK MPs who were granted peerages Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom People educated at Eton College Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford High Sheriffs of Wiltshire Deputy Lieutenants of Wiltshire Conservative Party (UK) hereditary peers Barons created by George V