Charles Colston, 1st Baron Roundway

Charles Edward Hungerford Atholl Colston, 1st Baron Roundway (16 May 1854 – 17 June 1925) 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, of Roundway Park near Devizes, Wiltshire, and his wife Louisa, daughter of Rev. Edward Murray from Northolt in Middlesex.

in 1879 he married Rosalind Emma Gostling-Murray, daughter of Col. Charles Gostling-Murray of Hounslow. and became a deputy lieutenant of Wiltshire in the same year. He was also a justice of the peace for Wiltshire. He was elected at the 1892 general election as the member of parliament (MP) for Thornbury, and held the seat until his defeat at the 1906 general election by the Liberal candidate Athelstan Rendall.

He was elevated to the peerage in the 1916 Birthday Honours, as Baron Roundway of Devizes.