Jock Colville is best known for his diaries, which provide an intimate view of number 10 Downing Street during the wartime Premiership of Winston Churchill.
17 Facts About Jock Colville
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Jock Colville came from a politically active and well-connected family, although, as he stated in the introduction to his published diaries, he was the younger son of a younger son and so did not inherit family wealth.
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Jock Colville's mother was Lady Cynthia, a courtier and social worker.
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Jock Colville was the daughter of Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe, by his first wife, the former Sibyl Graham, daughter of the Graham Baronets of Netherby.
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Jock Colville had two elder brothers, David Richard and Major Philip Robert Jock Colville.
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Jock Colville served alongside Harry Legge-Bourke as a Page of Honour between 1927 and 1931, thanks to his mother's connections as attendant to the queen.
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Jock Colville ensured he saw the other side of life, by taking him to the infant welfare centre she ran in Shoreditch in London.
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Jock Colville was educated at West Downs School, Winchester; Harrow; and Trinity College, Cambridge.
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Jock Colville thus saw the very beginning of Hitler's chancellorship, and its effects once it had bedded in: "There was increasing Strength matched by diminishing Joy".
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Jock Colville kept a diary from 1939 to 1957, parts of which have been published.
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Jock Colville was instrumental in raising funds for the establishment of Churchill College, Cambridge, as a national memorial to Winston Churchill, and was made an Honorary Fellow of the College in 1971.
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Jock Colville was joint honorary secretary of the Other Club for many years.
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Jock Colville was a Trustee of both Sir Winston and Lady Churchill's estates.
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In 1948, Jock Colville married Lady Margaret Egerton, daughter of John Egerton, 4th Earl of Ellesmere; she served as a Lady-in-Waiting to the then Princess Elizabeth from 1946 to 1949, and later to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother from 1990 to 2002.
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Jock Colville was knighted in the 1974 Birthday Honours for services to Churchill College, having previously been appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1955 Birthday Honours, and Companion of the Royal Victorian Order in 1949.
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Jock Colville is portrayed by James D'Arcy in the 2009 film Into the Storm and by Nicholas Rowe in the Netflix television series The Crown.
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Jock Colville wrote or contributed to a number of books, including:.