John Colville, 1st Baron Clydesmuir

Colonel The Right Honourable The Lord Clydesmuir GCIE PC
Colville in 1931
Governor of Bombay
In office 24 March 1943 – 5 January 1948
Preceded by	Roger Lumley
Succeeded by	Raja Maharaj Singh
Secretary of State for Scotland
In office 6 May 1938 – 10 May 1940
Prime Minister	Neville Chamberlain
Preceded by	Walter Elliot
Succeeded by	Ernest Brown
Financial Secretary to the Treasury
In office 29 October 1936 – 6 May 1938
Prime Minister	Stanley Baldwin Neville Chamberlain
Preceded by	William Morrison
Succeeded by	Euan Wallace
Under-Secretary of State for Scotland
In office 28 November 1935 – 29 October 1936
Prime Minister	Stanley Baldwin
Preceded by	Noel Skelton
Succeeded by	Henry Scrymgeour-Wedderburn
Member of Parliament for Midlothian and Peebles Northern
In office 30 May 1929 – January 1943
Preceded by	Andrew Clarke
Succeeded by	Sir David King Murray
Personal details
Born	13 February 1894 Cleland, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Died	31 October 1954 (aged 60)
Spouse	Agnes Anne Bilsland
Children	3, including Ronald Colville, 2nd Baron Clydesmuir
Alma mater	Charterhouse, Trinity College, Cambridge

David John Colville, 1st Baron Clydesmuir, GCIE, PC (13 February 1894 – 31 October 1954), was a Scottish Unionist politician, colonial administrator, and industrialist. He was director of his family's steel and iron business, David Colville & Sons as well as the final Governor of Bombay.