Christina Marshall Colville

Christian Downie was born at Copley, West Riding of Yorkshire, April 10, 1852.^[1] Her father was Provost Downie, J.P., of Kirkintilloch.^[2]

She was educated in private schools and at Glasgow Free Normal College.^[1]

On August 31, 1885, she married John Colville (1852–1901), M.P., of Motherwell, who was an active temperance worker.^[1]

Colville worked in the temperance field for many years, and was prominent in various temperance societies. She served as president of the BWTA (Scottish Christian Union),^[3] having been elected to that office in 1915. She was also president of the Lanarkshire Christian Union, president of the Motherwell United Evangelistic Association, a director of the Scottish Temperance League, and a member of the executive committee of the Lanarkshire branch of the Red Cross. She took an active part in evangelistic work at home and devoted a great deal of time to foreign missions.^[1]

Her home was at Cleland, North Lanarkshire, Scotland.^[1] Christina Colville died January 7, 1936.^[4]

In 1918, during World War I, an ambulance named in Colville's honour, the "Christian Colville", was donated by the BWTA to the Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service.^[5]