Sir Timothy James Alan Colman (19 September 1929 – 9 September 2021) was a British businessman and a
Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk.
Biography
Colman was from the
Colman's mustard family, and was the son of Lettice Elizabeth Evelyn Adeane and
Geoffrey Colman. Colman was educated at
Heatherdown Preparatory School in Berkshire
[ and at the age of 13 enrolled at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, and joined the ]Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom. It is a component of His Majesty's Naval Service, and its officers hold their commissions from the King of the United Kingdom, King. Although warships were used by Kingdom ...
. Colman later served as a second lieutenant on HMS Frobisher and Indefatigable[ leaving as a ]lieutenant
A lieutenant ( , ; abbreviated Lt., Lt, LT, Lieut and similar) is a Junior officer, junior commissioned officer rank in the armed forces of many nations, as well as fire services, emergency medical services, Security agency, security services ...
in 1953, before commencing a business career. He subsequently joined the Castaways' Club
The Castaways' Club is a dining club for retired Officer Corps of the Royal Navy, warfare officers (previously known as executive or seaman officers) of the Royal Navy who left the service while still junior officers, typically with the rank of Li ...
. Colman was chairman of the Eastern Counties Newspaper Group from 1969 to 1996. He was appointed a Knight Companion of the Order of the Garter in 1996.
Colman was a yachtsman, and claimed the record for the world's fastest yacht at 26.3 knots with ''Crossbow
A crossbow is a ranged weapon using an Elasticity (physics), elastic launching device consisting of a Bow and arrow, bow-like assembly called a ''prod'', mounted horizontally on a main frame called a ''tiller'', which is hand-held in a similar f ...
'', a proa
The ProA is the German basketball league system, second-tier Sports league, league of professional club basketball in Germany. The league comprises 16 teams. Officially the ProA is part of the ''2. Basketball Bundesliga'', which consists of the t ...
outrigger, at the inception of the World Sailing Speed Record Council in 1972. He increased the record to 31.2 knots three years later, and then in 1980 his catamaran
A catamaran () (informally, a "cat") is a watercraft with two parallel hull (watercraft), hulls of equal size. The wide distance between a catamaran's hulls imparts stability through resistance to rolling and overturning; no ballast is requi ...
'' Crossbow II'' extended the record to 36 knots. It held the record for six years until being beaten by the sailboard of Pascal Maka of France. Colman was a member of the Royal Yacht Squadron
The Royal Yacht Squadron (RYS) is a British yacht club. Its clubhouse is Cowes Castle on the Isle of Wight in the United Kingdom. Member yachts are given the suffix RYS to their names, and are permitted (with the appropriate warrant) to we ...
.
Colman had important roles in establishing the University of East Anglia
The University of East Anglia (UEA) is a Public university, public research university in Norwich, England. Established in 1963 on a campus university, campus west of the city centre, the university has four faculties and twenty-six schools of ...
, the creation of Whitlingham Broad and the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts.[Tributes as 'Norfolk son' Sir Timothy Colman dies aged 91]
Retrieved 11/9/21.
Personal life
His father died in 1935, when Timothy was just six, and his mother brought up him and his four siblings – David, Juliet, Penelope and Russell.[
His brother David was killed at El Alamein in 1942 aged 21, the same age that his younger brother Russell died in a railway accident in 1958.][
He was married to Lady Mary Colman (née Bowes-Lyon), niece of the Queen Mother, and lived in Bixley Manor, near ]Norwich
Norwich () is a cathedral city and district of the county of Norfolk, England, of which it is the county town. It lies by the River Wensum, about north-east of London, north of Ipswich and east of Peterborough. The population of the Norwich ...
. Lady Mary died on 2 January 2021 and Sir Timothy died at Bixley Manor on 9 September 2021, at the age of 91. His death came one day after fellow Knight Companion of the Garter Sir Antony Acland.
Colman's children include Sarah Troughton, who was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire in 2012.[Morwenna Blake]
Queen appoints new Lord Lieutenant
from '' Salisbury Journal'' dated 3 December 2011 online at salisburyjournal.co.uk, accessed 7 May 2012
References
External links
Crossbow II
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1929 births
2021 deaths
English knights
English male sailors (sport)
Knights of the Garter
Knights of the Order of St John
Lord-lieutenants of Norfolk
People associated with the University of East Anglia
People from South Norfolk (district)
People educated at Heatherdown School
Graduates of Britannia Royal Naval College
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Royal Navy officers
20th-century Royal Navy personnel
Military personnel from Norfolk