Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Colgrain

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

The Lord Colgrain in 1946

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. 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 [3]

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. Burke's Peerage. 1949.

Notes
  • Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990,
  • Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
New Creation		 Baron Colgrain
1946–1954		 Succeeded by
Donald Swinton Campbell
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