COLLINS, Thomas (2 son of Rev. Thomas Collins, V. of Farnham, Yorkshire who d. 7 May 1870 aged 89). b. 1825; ed. at Charterhouse and Wadham coll. Ox., B.A. 1847; barrister I.T. 4 May 1849; M.P. for Knaresborough 1851–2, 1857–65 and 12 May 1881 to death; M.P. for Boston 1868–74. d. Harrogate 26 Nov. 1884 in 59 year.
COLLINS, William. b. Eastwood, Renfrewshire 12 Oct. 1789; elder of Tron. ch. Glasgow 1814, and chief mover in appointment of Rev. Thomas Chalmers to that ch. 1815; opened first local Sabbath sch. Glasgow 1816; publisher and bookseller; lecturer on Temperance in Scotland and England 1829–34; founder of British and Foreign Temperance Soc. London 1830; founder of 20 new churches in Glasgow 1834 etc.; joined the Free ch. movement in 1843 and aided in erecting many Free churches. d. Rothesay 2 Jany. 1853. Wylie’s Disruption Worthies (1881) 165–72; Burns’s Temperance Dictionary (1864) pp. 433–43.
COLLINS, William Anthony (2 son of Charles Collins of Brixworth hall, Northamptonshire). b. London 1801; ed. at Ch. coll. Cam., B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1829, bencher 1861; Q.C. 22 Feb. 1861. d. Warrior sq. St. Leonard’s on Sea 30 March 1875. bur. Tonbridge, Kent.
COLLINS, Rev. William Lucas (only son of Rev. John Collins of Axwich, Glamorgan). Educ. at Jesus coll. Ox., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841; C. of Great Houghton, Northamptonshire 1835–62; R. of Cheriton, Glamorganshire 1863–7; V. of Kilsby 1867–73; R. of Lowick 1873 to death; V. of Slipton 1876 to death; hon. canon of Peterborough 1871 to death; editor of Ancient classics for English readers 1870, wrote the vols. on Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, Aristophanes, Lucian, Virgil, Plautus, Terence, Cicero, Livy and Thucydides; author of The luck of Ladysmede 1860; The education question 1862; Etoniana ancient and modern 1865; The public schools by W. L. C. 1867; Montaigne in Mrs. Oliphant’s Foreign classics for English readers 1879; Butler in Knight’s Philosophical classics for English readers 1881; La Fontaine and other French fabulists in Foreign Classics 1882; contributed to Blackwood’s Mag. from 1843. d. Lowick rectory 24 March 1887 aged 70. Blackwood’s Mag. cxli, 734–6 (1887).
COLLINSON, James (son of Mr. Collinson of Mansfield, Notts. bookseller). b. Mansfield about 1825; ed. at Royal Academy school; exhibited a picture called ‘The charity boy’s début’ at the R.A. 1847; one of the original 7 brothers of the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood; contributed a devotional poem in blank verse entitled The Child Jesus to the Pre-Raphaelite periodical The Germ 1850; lived in seclusion at Stonyhurst 1851–4; fellow of Society of British Artists. d. of pneumonia at 16 Paulet road, Camberwell, London 24 Jany. 1881. Fraser’s Mag. May 1882 pp. 568–80.
COLLINSON, Rev. John (son of Rev. Richard Collinson of Bristol). Educ. at Winchester and Queen’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1803, M.A. 1806; one of Select Preachers 1809, Bampton Lecturer 1813; R. of Gateshead 1810–40; R. of Boldon, Durham, 1840 to death; hon. canon of Durham 1844 to death; author of Analysis of Hooker’s eight books of ecclesiastical polity 1810; Life of Thuanus with account of his writings 1807; Key to the writings of the Fathers of the Christian church 1813; Observations on the history of the gospel from Solomon’s temple to first Christian century 1830; History of Reformation, from the French of A. Ruchat 1845. d. Boldon 17 Feb. 1857. G.M. ii, 492–93 (1857).
COLLINSON, Sir Richard (son of the preceding). b. Gateshead 7 Nov. 1811; entered navy 2 Dec. 1823; captain 23 Dec. 1842; captain of the Enterprise 14 Dec. 1849 to 6 May 1855 during the expedition to Behring strait in search of Sir John Franklin; granted good service pension 4 Dec. 1857; an elder brother of the Trinity House 1862, deputy master 7 Sep. 1875 to death; V.A. 17 March 1869; retired admiral 30 July 1875; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842, K.C.B. 29 May 1875; F.R.G.S. gold medallist 1848; edited for the Hakluyt Society The three voyages of Martin Frobisher in search of a passage to Cathaia and India by the Northwest 1867. d. Haven Green, Ealing 12 Sep. 1883. Proc. of Royal Geog. Soc. v, 606–9, 734 (1883); I.L.N. xxvi, 472 (1855), portrait, lxxxiii, 309 (1883), portrait.
COLLIS, Rev. John Day (eld. son of Rev. Robert Fitzgerald Collis 1790–1863, preb. of Kilconnel, co. Galway). b. 24 Feb. 1816; ed. at Rugby and Worcester coll. Ox., Eaton scholar 1835, B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841, B.D. and D.D. 1860; Kennicott Hebrew scholar 1839; Pusey and Ellerton Hebrew scholar 1841; fellow of his college; head master of Bromsgrove gr. school Dec. 1842–1867, tercentenary of the school was celebrated 31 March 1853, the chapel was built at cost of £1500, 1856; hon. canon of Worcester 1854 to death; Grinfield lecturer on Septuagint in Univ. of Ox. 1863–65; V. of Stratford-on-Avon 1867 to death; founded Trinity college school at Stratford-on-Avon 27 Jany. 1872; author of The chief rules of Greek accentuation 1849 and other Greek school books; The chief tenses of Latin irregular verbs 1854 and other Latin school books; Historical notes on the church of St. John the Baptist, Bromsgrove 1859; Ponticulus Latinus, History of Rome to destruction of Carthage 1860. d. Shottery hall, Stratford-on-Avon 1 April 1879. bur. Bromsgrove cemetery 4 April.
COLLIS, Maurice Henry (brother of the preceding). b. 1824; ed. at Trin. coll. Dub., B.A. 1847, M.B. 1849, M.D. 1867, L.R.C.S.I. 1847, F.R.C.S.I. 1850; surgeon to Meath Hosp. 1851 to death; pres. of council of Irish Medical Assoc.; author of On the diagnosis and treatment of cancer and the tumours analogous to it 1864. d. Dublin 28 March 1869. Reg. and mag. of biog. i, 404–5 (1869).
COLLS, Rev. John Flowerdew. b. 15 Aug. 1801; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ and Trin. coll. Cam., B.D. 1834, D.D. 1842; R. of Laindon, Herts. 1853 to death; author of Vindication of infant baptism 1829; Utilitarianism unmasked 1844. d. 9 Hanover st. Hanover square, London 19 Nov. 1878.