Baron Colchester

Baron Colchester, of Colchester in the County of Essex, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

It was created on 1 June 1817 for Charles Abbot, Speaker of the House of Commons between 1802 and 1817.

He was a naval commander and Conservative politician.

His son, the third Baron, was a barrister, President of the Oxford Union and a Charity Commissioner.

He was childless and the title became extinct on his death in 1919.