Richard Colvin (politician)

Brigadier-General Richard Beale Colvin, CB (4 Aug 1856 – 17 January 1936) was a British officer and Conservative Party politician.

He served as High Sheriff of Essex in 1890.

During the Second Boer War (1899-1901) he served with the 20th Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry, and was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in November 1900.

Colvin was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Epping at an unopposed by-election in 1917, after Epping's Conservative MP Amelius Lockwood was ennobled as Baron Lambourne. He was re-elected in 1918 and 1922, and retired from the House of Commons at the 1923 general election

His portrait, describing him as a brigadier general, is held at the National Portrait Gallery