Sir Nigel Claudian Dalziel Colman, 1st Baronet was a British businessman and Conservative Party politician.
Background
The second son of Frederick Edward Colman and his wife, Helen, eldest daughter of Davison Octavius Dalziel, he was born at Carlyle House, Chelsea Embankment, London. His father was a prominent industrialist and chairman of J and J Colman, and Nigel later became a director of Reckitt and Colman.
Career
Colman served in the Royal Navy during the First World War later transferring to the Royal Air Force where he left as a Captain. Colman was an enthusiastic breeder and exhibitor of harness horses and dogs. He was president of the National Horse Association of Great Britain from 1939–1945.
And of the Hackney Horse Society in 1923 and 1938, and chairman of the British Horse Society from 1952 –1955.
The latter society awarded him its medal of honour in 1953. This created a vacancy, and Colman was elected to the House of Commons in the ensuing by-election.
He served as chairman of the Executive Committee of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations from 1945 – 1951 and president of the London Conservative Union 1952 – 1959. In January 1952 he was created a baronet "of Reigate in the County of Surrey" for political and public services.
The couple had no children, and the baronetcy became extinct on his death at his Grosvenor Square, London home in March 1966.
He is buried in the churchyard of Street John the Evangelist Church in Wotton, Surrey.
Politics
Politically a Conservative, in 1925 Colman was elected to the London County Council representing Brixton as a member of the majority Conservative-backed Municipal Reform Party. He was re-elected on three occasions, before losing to Marcus Lipton of the Labour Party, when that party won a landslide victory at the 1945 general election.
Membership
34th United Kingdom Parliament. 35th United Kingdom Parliament. 36th United Kingdom Parliament.
37th United Kingdom Parliament]
He was also a committee member of the Kennel Club.
Although no longer a member of parliament, Colman continued to be active in the Conservative Party.