Nigel Colman

Sir Nigel Claudian Dalziel Colman, 1st Baronet (4 May 1886 – 7 March 1966) was a British businessman and Conservative Party politician.

Early life The second son of Frederick Edward Colman and his wife, Helen, eldest daughter of Davison Octavius Dalziel, he was born at Carlyle House, Chelsea Embankment, London. His father was a prominent industrialist and chairman of J and J Colman, and Nigel later became a director of Reckitt and Colman.

Horses and dogs Colman was an enthusiastic breeder and exhibitor of harness horses and dogs. Two years later his uncle, Sir Davison Dalziel, Conservative MP for Brixton was raised to the peerage. This created a vacancy, and Colman was elected to the House of Commons in the ensuing by-election. On 30 July of the same year he married Nona Ann Willan. The couple had no children, and the baronetcy became extinct on his death at his Grosvenor Square, London home in March 1966.