Sir Colman Rashleigh, 2nd Baronet

Sir Colman Rashleigh, 2nd Baronet (4 May 1819 – 27 October 1896) was an English Liberal Party politician.

Early life Rashleigh was born on 4 May 1819 at Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire, England. He was the eldest son of the former Harriet Williams (d. 1831) and Sir John Colman Rashleigh, 1st Baronet (1772–1847), who was created a Baronet of Prideaux on 30 September 1831 when Colman was 12 years old.

His paternal grandparents were Katherine (née Battie) Rashleigh (daughter and co-heir of William Battie, Esq. M.D.) and John Rashleigh, Esq. of Penquite, the first Commissioner and Receiver for Greenwich Hospital.

Rashleigh was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating with a B.A. in 1843.

He was also invested as a Companion, Order of the Bath (CB) and gained the rank of Honorary Colonel in the service of the Cornwall and Devon Miners' Artillery.

Sir Colman Battie Rashleigh, 3rd Baronet (1846–1907), who married, firstly, Geraldine Frances Walpole, daughter of Lt. Gen. Sir Robert Walpole, in 1872. He married, secondly, Amy Young Jamieson, daughter of James Young Jamieson, Esq., in 1878. Lady Rashleigh died at the Mayoralty in Bodmin on 6 August 1893 and Sir Colman died on 27 October 1896.