Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Colville, Alexander

COLVILLE, Alexander, Lord, British naval officer, b. about 1710; d. 21 May, 1770. He was the eighth Baron Colville in the peerage of Scotland. He entered the navy, and attained in 1770 the rank of vice-admiral of the white. He commanded on the North American station, and in 1762 drove the French out of St. John, Newfoundland, which they had retaken a short time before.