uthor also of _The Historie and Life of King James the
Sext_ (edited by T. Thompson for the Bannatyne Club, Edinburgh, 1825).

Colville's _Original Letters_, 1582-1603, published by the Bannatyne
Club in 1858, contains a biographical memoir by the editor, David
Laing.

COLVIN, JOHN RUSSELL (1807-1857), lieutenant-governor of the North-West
Provinces of India during the mutiny of 1857, belonged to an
Anglo-Indian family of Scottish descent, and was born in Calcutta on the
29th of May 1807. Passing through Haileybury he entered the service of
the East India Company in 1826. In 1836 he became private secretary to
Lord Auckland, and his influence over the viceroy has been held partly
responsible for the first Afghan war of 1837; but it has since been
shown that Lord Auckland's policy was dictated by the secret committee
of the company at home. In 1853 Mr Colvin was appointed
lieutenant-governor of the North-West Provinces by Lord Dalhousie. On
the outbreak of the mutiny in 1857 he had with him at Agra only a weak
British regiment and a native battery, too small a force to make head
against the mutineers; and a proclamation which he issued to the natives
was censured at the time for its clemency, but it followed the same
lines as those adopted by Sir Henry Lawrence and subsequently followed
by Lord Canning. Exhausted by anxiety and misrepresentation he died on
the 9th of September, his death shortly preceding the fall of Delhi.

His son, SIR AUCKLAND COLVIN (1838-1908), followed him in a
distinguished career in the same service, from 1858 to 1879. He was
comptroller-general in Egypt (1880 to 1882), and financial adviser to
the khedive (1883 to 1887), and from 1883 till 1892 was back again in
India, first as financial member of council, and then, from 1887, as
lieutenant-governor of the North-West Provinces and Oudh. He was created
K.C.M.G. in 1881, and K.C.S.I. in 1892, when he retired. He published
_The Making of Modern Egypt_ in 1906, and a biography of his father, in
the "Rulers of India" series, in 1895. He died at Surbiton on the 24th
of March 1908.

COLVIN, SIDNEY (1845- ), English literary and art critic, was born at
Norwood, London, on the 18th of June 1845. A scholar of Trinity College,
Cambridge, he became a fellow of his college in 1868. In 1873 he was
Slade professor of fine art, and was appointed in the next year to the
directorship of the Fitzwilliam Museum. In 1884 he removed to London o