Honorific-Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
The Viscount Colville of Culross | |
Office1: | Member of the House of Lords |
Status1: | Lord Temporal |
Term Label1: | as an elected hereditary peer |
Term Start1: | 25 July 2011 |
Predecessor1: | The 4th Baron Ampthill |
Birth Date: | 5 September 1959 |
Party: | Crossbench |
Alma Mater: | Rugby School St Chad's College |
Charles Mark Townshend Colville, 5th Viscount Colville of Culross (born 5 September 1959), is a Scottish television producer, director[1] and peer. He was educated at Rugby School and at St Chad's College, Durham. The son of Mark Colville, 4th Viscount Colville of Culross, he succeeded to his father's title in 2010,[2] and in July 2011 was elected to the House of Lords, where he sits as a crossbencher.[3] He is also the Chief of Clan Colville.
He used his maiden speech in the House of Lords[4] to outline the downsides of unpaid internships in the media industry.[5]