What is "colvile"

Colvile may refer to:

• SS Colvile, a Lake Winnipeg steamboat built for the Hudson's Bay Company
• Colvile (surname), a common family name

Colvile is a surname. Notable persons with that surname include:

• Andrew Wedderburn Colvile (also spelled Colville), London governor of the Hudson's Bay Company
• Charles Robert Colvile (1815–1886], British Member of Parliament for South Derbyshire
• Eden Colvile (1819–1893), London governor of the Hudson's Bay Company
• James William Colvile, (1810–1880), British Chief Justice of Bengal, judge on the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
• Oliver Colvile (born 1959), British Member of Parliament for Plymouth Sutton & Devonport
• Robert Colvile, British Member of Parliament for Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire (1754–1761)