Colin Welch

'James Colin Ross Welch

Welch, son of James William Welch and Irene Margherita (née Paton), was born in Cambridgeshire, England, at Ickleton Abbey, which his grandfather, also James Welch, had owned since 1900 and which estate the family farmed until 1933; they were also Shire horse breeders. James William Welch was among the principal landowners at Ickleton in 1929.

Welch was educated at Stowe and Peterhouse, Cambridge, and joined the Royal Warwickshire Regiment in 1944, taking part in the Normandy landings in June and fighting until injured in March 1945. He joined the Glasgow Herald in 1948, and then The Daily Telegraph in 1950, when he became a parliamentary correspondent for the newspaper, advocating his economic liberal views for three decades.

His granddaughter, by his son Nicholas Russell Welch, an advertising executive, is musician Florence Welch.

Publications "Policies and Parliament", Rebirth of Britain : a Symposium of Essays by Eighteen Writers, London: Pan, 1964, pp. 45–57. "Dear Little Noddy", Encounter, January 1958, pp. 18–22.Odd Thing About the Colonel and Other Pieces'', London: Bellew Publishing, 1997.