Charles Colville, 5th Viscount Colville of Culross
Charles Mark Townshend Colville, 5th Viscount Colville of Culross, Baron Colville of Waveney (born 5 September 1959), is a Scottish television producer, director and hereditary peer. In May 2026, it was announced he was to be given one of 26 new life peerages, returning him to the House of Lords after the coming into force of the House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Act 2026.
Also recorded as Charles Mark Townshend Colville, 5th Viscount Colville of Culross · Viscount Colville of Culross
Charles Colville, 5th Viscount Colville of Culross
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- Name
- The Viscount Colville of Culross
- Born
- 5 September 1959
- Education
- Rugby School St Chad's College
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Occupation
- politician · television director · television producer · film director
- Fields
- television direction
- Languages
- English
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Charles Mark Townshend Colville, 5th Viscount Colville of Culross, Baron Colville of Waveney (born 5 September 1959), is a Scottish television producer, director and hereditary peer. In May 2026, it was announced he was to be given one of 26 new life peerages, returning him to the House of Lords after the coming into force of the House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Act 2026.
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• Honorific Prefix — The Right Honourable • Name — The Viscount Colville of Culross • Office — Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal • Term Label — Life peerage • Term Start — 8 June 2026 • Term Label1 — Elected Hereditary Peer • Term Start1 — 25 July 2011 • Term End1 — 29 April 2026 • 1blankname1 — By-election • 1namedata1 — 2011 • Predecessor1 — The 4th Baron Ampthill • Successor1 — Seat abolished • Born — 5 September 1959 • Party — None (crossbencher) • Education — Rugby School St Chad's College • Blank1 — Other titles • Data1 — * 5th Baron Colville of Culross • 14th Lord Colville of Culross
Early life and education
Early life and education
Colville was born in 1959, the eldest son of Mark Colville, 4th Viscount Colville of Culross, and his first wife Mary Elizabeth Webb-Bowen. He was styled Master of Colville between 1959 and 2010. He was educated at Rugby School and at St Chad's College, Durham.
Career
Career
Colville worked as a newspaper reporter for the Ludlow Advertiser and the Berrow's Worcester Journal in the 1980s. He succeeded to the viscountcy upon his father's death in 2010, and in July 2011 was elected to the House of Lords, where he sat as a crossbencher. Colville used his maiden speech in the House of Lords to outline the downsides of unpaid internships in the media industry. He is the Chief of Clan Colville.
Personal life
Personal life
Colville is unmarried. The heir presumptive to the viscountcy is his brother, the Hon. Richmond James Innys Colville.
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