Baron Roundway, of Devizes in the County of Wiltshire, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

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. It was created on 30 June 1916 for Charles Colston

Charles Colston, 1st Baron Roundway

Charles Edward Hungerford Atholl Colston, 1st Baron Roundway was a British Conservative Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1892 to 1906, and was later elevated to the peerage, taking his seat in the House of Lords.- Early life and family :Colston was the son of Edward Colston,...

, Conservative

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 Member of Parliament

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 for Thornbury

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 from 1892 to 1906. He was succeeded by his son, the second Baron. He was a Brigadier-General in the Army and fought in the Second Boer War

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 and in the First World War. He had no male issue and on his death on 29 March 1944 the barony became extinct.

The family seat was Roundway Park, Devizes

Devizes

Devizes is a market town and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. The town is about southeast of Chippenham and about east of Trowbridge.Devizes serves as a centre for banks, solicitors and shops, with a large open market place where a market is held once a week...

, Wiltshire

Wiltshire

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Barons Roundway (1916)

• Charles Edward Hungerford Atholl Colston, 1st Baron Roundway
  Charles Colston, 1st Baron Roundway
  Charles Edward Hungerford Atholl Colston, 1st Baron Roundway was a British Conservative Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1892 to 1906, and was later elevated to the peerage, taking his seat in the House of Lords.- Early life and family :Colston was the son of Edward Colston,...
  
  (1854–1925)
• Edward Murray Colston, 2nd Baron Roundway (1880–1944)