Colt, Samuel, the inventor of the revolver, born in Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.; having difficulty in raising money to carry out his invention it proved a commercial failure, but being adopted by the Government in the Mexican war it proved a success, since which time it has been everywhere in use (1814‒1862).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Colston, Edward * Columba, St.