Sir Colman Rashleigh, 2nd Baronet CB DL (4 May 1819 – 27 October 1896)[1] was an English Liberal Party politician.
He was the eldest son of the former Harriet Williams (d. 1831) and Sir John Colman Rashleigh, 1st Baronet (1772–1847), who was created a Baronet of Prideaux on 30 September 1831 when Colman was 12 years old.
[3] The Rashleigh family had been settled in Cornwall since at least the early part of the 16th century.
[3] Rashleigh was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating with a B.A.
[4] He was also invested as a Companion, Order of the Bath (CB) and gained the rank of Honorary Colonel in the service of the Cornwall and Devon Miners' Artillery.