Lords
1st Lord Colville, Robert Colville, b.?, a.1651, d.1662
Robert Colville, an illegitimate son of Sir James Colville of Ochiltree (b.?,
d.1540) (whose legitimate descendants became the Lords Colville
of Culross), was given the barony of Cleish. He married Frances Colquhoun (b.?,
d.1591). Their son Robert Colville (b.?, d.1584) married Margaret Lindsay (b.?,
d.1601). Their son Robert Colville (b.?, d.1634) married Beatrix Haldane, and
their son, also Robert Colville, was created 1st Lord Colville of
Ochiltree.
2nd Lord Colville, Robert Colville, b.?, a.1662, d.1671
Nephew of the 1st Lord, being son the that man’s younger
brother David Colville (b.?, d.1647) and Agnes Beaton.
3rd Lord Colville, Robert Colville, b.?, a.1654, d.1656, d.1728
Son of the 2nd Lord and Margaret Wemyss, daughter of David
Wemyss of Fingask. He died without children and the title was claimed by his
sister’s grandchildren and other distant relatives, but after the election of
1788 any further claims were disallowed by the House of Lords. His sister, Margaret
Colville, had married Sir John Ayton of Ayton, and of one their daughters
married one Andrew Blackburn, whose daughter Isabella Blackburn (b.?, d.1821)
married James Wedderburn (b.1730, d.1807), a son of Sir John Wedderburn, 5th
Baronet Wedderburn of Blackness, who later changed his name to Wedderburn-Colville.
Their daughter Jean Wedderburn-Colville (b.?, d.1871) married Thomas Douglas, 5th
Earl of Selkirk and their son Andrew Wedderburn
Colville (b.1779, d.1856) was heavily involved with his brother-in-law in the
development of Canada, and was a Member of the Committee of the Hudson’s Bay
Company.
(Last updated: 05/02/2010)