Richard Colvin (British Army officer)

Brigadier-General Sir Richard Beale Colvin, KCB, TD (4 August 1856 – 17 January 1936)[1] was a British officer and Conservative Party politician.

He was educated at Eton and at Trinity College, Cambridge, from where he received a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in 1879.

[2] He served as High Sheriff of Essex in 1890, and was a Major in the Loyal Suffolk Hussars, a Yeomanry regiment based in Bury St Edmunds..

For his services during the war, he was appointed a Companion (military) of the Order of the Bath (CB) in November 1900.

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