Frederic Boase
Modern English Biography (volume 1 of 4) A-H
COLBURN, Henry. Kept circulating library in Conduit st. London 1816; publisher in New Burlington st. 1817; partner with Richard Bentley 1830 to Aug. 1832; publisher at Windsor; publisher in Great Marlborough st. London 1853, retired in favour of Hurst and Blackett; chief publisher of novels many years; published Colburn’s Modern Standard Novelists 19 vols. 1835–41; originated New Monthly Mag. 1814; with Wm. Jerdan Literary Gazette 25 Jany. 1817, Court Journal 1828, United Service Mag. 1829. d. Bryanston sq. London 16 Aug. 1855, his copyrights were sold for £14,000, 26 May 1857. H. Curwen’s History of booksellers (1873) 279–95.
COLBY, Thomas Frederick (eld. child of Thomas Colby, major R.M. who d. 1813). b. St. Margaret’s-next-Rochester 1 Sep. 1784; ed. at Northfleet school and R.M.A. Woolwich; second lieut. R.E. 2 July 1801; lost his left hand by explosion of a pistol, Dec. 1803; F.R.S. 13 April 1820; surveyed Ireland 1824–46; col. R.E. 10 Jany. 1837 to 9 Nov. 1846; M.G. 9 Nov. 1846. (m. 1828 Elizabeth Hester 2 dau. of Archibald Boyd, treasurer of Londonderry, she was granted a civil list pension of £100, 10 Feb. 1853). d. New Brighton near Liverpool 9 Oct. 1852. J. E. Portlock’s Life of General Colby 1869; Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xii, 132–7 (1853).
COLCHESTER, Charles Abbot, 2 Baron (elder son of 1 baron Colchester 1757–1829). b. St. James’s, Westminster 12 March 1798; entered navy 8 April 1811; captain 26 Jany. 1826, placed on h.p. Jany. 1833; admiral on h.p. 11 Jany. 1864; succeeded as 2 Baron 7 May 1829; vice pres. of Board of Trade and paymaster general 28 Feb. to Dec. 1852; P.C. 27 Feb. 1852; postmaster general, Feb. 1858 to June 1859. d. 34 Berkeley sq. London 18 Oct. 1867. Walford’s Photographic portraits of living celebrities 1859, portrait; I.L.N. xxxii, 312 (1858), portrait.
COLDSTREAM, John (only son of Robert Coldstream of Leith, merchant). b. Leith 19 March 1806; ed. at Leith, High sch. Edin. and Univ. of Edin.; apprenticed to Dr. Charles Anderson of Leith 1823; entered Royal Medical Society 19 Nov. 1824; studied in Paris 1827–28; practised at Leith 1828–47; mem. of Wernerian Society 9 Jany. 1830; enrolled as Fellow for life of Botanical Soc. 9 Dec. 1858, date of dissolution of Wernerian Soc.; F.R.C.P. 1845; removed to Edinburgh 1847; mem. of Royal Physical Society 17 Feb. 1849, one of the presidents 4 Dec. 1850. d. Irthing house near Carlisle 17 Sept. 1863. J. H. Balfour’s Biography of the late John Coldstream (1865), portrait.
COLE, Rev. Arthur Raggett. Ed. at Wad. coll. Ox., B.A. 1864, M.A. 1866, B.D. 1874; C. of St. Luke, Southampton 1864–68; C. in charge of Hurstbourne Priors, Hants. 1868 to death; author of A short liturgy for the school room service, 2 ed. 1870; Drawing near with faith 1872; A book of family prayers for a month 1875; edited the Etcetera, monthly mag. 1872–4. d. Hurstbourne Priors 23 Sep. 1877.
COLE, George, b. 1810; portrait painter at Portsmouth; painted a canvas show-cloth 20 feet square for Wombwell’s menagerie; studied animal painting in Holland; exhibited 16 pictures at the R.A., 35 at B.I. and 209 at Suffolk st. gallery 1838–80; member of society of British Artists 1850. d. of heart disease at 1 Kensington crescent, London 7 Sep. 1883. I.L.N. lxxxiii, 307, 309 (1883), portrait.
COLE, George Ward. b. Lumley castle, Durham 15 Nov. 1793; in the navy 1807–17 when placed on h.p.; in the merchant service 1817–39; arrived in Melbourne 4 July 1840; built Cole’s Wharf on the Yarra 1841; built the “City of Melbourne” 1851 the 1st screw steamer ever seen south of the equator, she traded between Melbourne and Launceston and was finally wrecked on King’s Island, Bass’s Straits 1853; introduced sugar-beet into Victoria from Holland 1863; member for Gipps Land of Victorian legislative council, July 1853–1855; member for the Central province of legislative council 1859 to death; an executive councillor 1867; wrote several pamphlets in support of protection. d. 26 April 1879. Men of the time in Australia, Victorian series (1878) 37–39.
COLE, Sir Henry (son of Henry Robert Cole, captain 1 dragoon guards). b. Bath 15 July 1808; ed. at Christ’s hospital; clerk to Francis Palgrave of the Record Commission 1824–9; one of the 4 senior assistant keepers of the Records 1838–41; edited Guide newspaper 1837, Post Circular 1838; sec. of committee on penny postage 1838; edited Journal of Design March 1849 to Feb. 1852; member of Society of Arts 1846; member of executive committee of Great Exhibition 1851, 3 Jany. 1850; general adviser to Exhibition of 1862 with a fee of £1500; sec. to royal commission at Paris exhibitions 1855 and 1867; chief manager of Exhibitions in London 1871–4; sec. of School of Design 31 Oct. 1851; sec. of Department of practical art Jany. 1852 to April 1873; C.B. 25 Oct. 1851, K.C.B. 25 March 1875; published under the pseudonym of Felix Summerly, the following books, The Home Treasury. A series of children’s books. Lond. printed by J. Cundall 1843–44; Pleasure excursions to Croydon 1846; Heroic tales of ancient Greece, translated from the German of B. G. Niebuhr 1849, and the following handbooks, Westminster Abbey 1842, Picture galleries 1842, Canterbury 1843, Hampton Court 1843, National gallery 1843, Temple Church 1843; Shall we keep the Crystal palace, by Denarius 1851; edited Works of T. L. Peacock 3 vols. 1875. (m. 28 Dec. 1833 Marian Fairman 3 dau. of Wm. Andrew Bond of Ashford, Kent, she was granted a civil list pension of £150, 10 June 1882, author of The Mother’s Primer, by Mrs. Felix Summerly 1844). d. 96 Philbeach gardens, Earl’s Court, London 18 April 1882. Fifty years of public work of Sir H. Cole 2 vols. 1884, portrait; Practical Mag. vii, 321, portrait; I.L.N. xix, 487, 509 (1851), portrait, lxiii, 36, 38 (1873), portrait, lxxx, 417 (1882), portrait.
Note.—He originated the idea of Christmas cards, the first of which was issued by Joseph Cundall at 12 Old Bond st, 1846, the drawing was made by J. C. Horsley printed in lithography by Jobbins of Warwick court, Holborn and coloured by hand, about 1000 copies were sold of the card which was the usual size of a lady’s calling card.
COLE, Henry Thomas (2 son of George Cole, captain Cornwall militia). b. Bath 2 Feb. 1816; barrister M.T. 4 Nov. 1842, bencher Jany. 1867, treasurer 1883–4; became leader of Western circuit; recorder of Penzance April 1862 to April 1872; Q.C. 13 Dec. 1866; recorder of Plymouth and Devonport April 1872 to death; M.P. for Falmouth and Penryn 6 Feb. 1874 to 24 March 1880. d. 4 Glendower place, South Kensington, London 5 Jany. 1885.
COLE, Henry Warwick (3 son of Wm. Nicholas Cole of Islington, solicitor). b. 12 Oct. 1812; ed. at Univ. coll. London; barrister I.T. 10 June 1836, bencher 1861, reader 1873, treasurer 1874; Q.C. 22 Feb. 1861; judge of county courts, circuit 21 Warwickshire 11 Sep. 1872 to death; author of The law of domicile of Englishmen in France 1857; St. Augustine a poem in 8 books 1877; contributed to Quarterly Review and Fraser’s Mag. d. 23 High st. Warwick 19 June 1876.
COLE, John Lowry (3 son of 2 Earl of Enniskillen 1768–1840). b. 8 June 1813; sheriff of Fermanagh 1842. M.P. for Enniskillen 21 Feb. 1859 to 11 Nov. 1868. d. Florence court, co. Fermanagh 29 Nov. 1882.
COLE, Pennel. Second lieut. R.E. 1 Feb. 1810, col. 20 June 1854 to 11 Aug. 1856 when he retired on full pay; M.G. 11 Aug. 1856. d. Boulogne 25 March 1862 aged 70.
COLE, William John. b. London; entered navy 5 Jany. 1802; captain on h.p. 28 June 1838; K.H. 1 Jany. 1837. d. Lechlade, Gloucs. 15 May 1856.
COLE, William Robert. Barrister M.T. 23 Nov. 1838; went north-eastern circuit; author of Law and practice on criminal information 1843; Law and practice in ejectment 1856. d. Warrington gardens, Maida hill, London 27 Dec. 1881.
COLEBROOKE, Sir William Macbean George (son of Paulette Welbore Colebrooke, lieut.-col. R.A. who d. 28 Sep. 1816). b. 1787; Second lieut. R.A. 17 Aug. 1803; served in Mahratta war 1817–8; comr. of Eastern inquiry 1823–31; lieut. governor of Bahamas 9 Sep. 1834; governor general of Leeward islands 11 Jany. 1837; knighted by Wm. iv at Windsor castle 31 March 1837; lieut. governor of New Brunswick 25 March 1841–1848; governor of British Guiana 28 April 1848; governor of Barbados, Grenada, St. Vincent, Tobago and St. Lucia 11 Aug. 1848 to 1856 when he retired on pension of £750; col. commandant R.A. 25 Sep. 1859 to death; general 26 Dec. 1865; K.H. 1834, C.B. 1 May 1848. d. Salthill, Bucks. 6 Feb. 1870.
COLEMAN, Rev. William Higgins. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839; a master at Christ’s hospital, Hertford 1840–7; at Ashby-de-la-Zouch gr. sch. 1847 to death; author with Rev. H. R. Webb of Flora Hertfordiensis 1849; published in Journal of Biblical Literature, July 1863 an elaborate paper on The Eighteenth chapter of Isaiah, which was reprinted with others under title of Biblical papers, being remains of the Rev. W. H. Coleman 1864. d. Burton on Trent 12 Sep. 1863.
COLENSO, Frances Ellen (2 dau. of the succeeding). b. 30 May 1849; befriended Cetywayo 1881; author with Col. Edward Durnford of History of the Zulu war 1880; The ruin of Zululand 1884. d. Ventnor, Isle of Wight 29 April 1887.
COLENSO, Right Rev. John William (son of John Wm. Colenso of Lostwithiel, mineral agent for Duchy of Cornwall, who d. 23 Dec. 1860 aged 82). b. St. Austell 24 Jany. 1814; ed. at Devonport and St. John’s coll. Cam.; second wrangler and Smith’s prizeman 1836; B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839, B.D. and D.D. 1853; fellow of his college 13 March 1837 to 1846; mathematical master at Harrow 1839–42; private tutor at Cam. 1842–6; V. of Forncett St. Mary, Norfolk 1846–53; bishop of Natal 23 Nov. 1853, consecrated in St. Mary’s, Lambeth 30 Nov.; suffragan to bishop of Cape Town 6 Dec. 1853, who pronounced sentence of deposition against him 16 April 1864, he appealed to the Crown, and the judicial committee of the privy council pronounced all the legal proceedings null and void in law; publicly excommunicated at Maritzburg cathedral 5 Jany. 1866; author of The elements of Algebra designed for the use of schools 1841, and numerous other works on mathematics; Village sermons 1854; Ten weeks in Natal 1855; First steps in Zulu-Kaffir 1859 and many other works concerning, and in that language; The Pentateuch and Book of Joshua critically examined 1862–65, 5 volumes, with other editions of the whole work and of parts of it; Natal sermons, a series of discourses in the cathedral church of St. Peter’s, Maritzburg 1866; Lectures on the Pentateuch and the Moabite stone 1873; The treatment by the Natal government of Langalibalele and the Amahlubi tribe 1874. d. Pieter-Maritzburg, Natal 20 June 1883. Dict. of Nat. Biog. xi, 290–3 (1887); Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i, 76–9, iii, 1125–7; J. F. Hurst’s History of rationalism (1867) 401–409; Churchman’s Family Mag. v, 395–408 (1865); Boase’s Collectanea Cornubiensia 153–4; Graphic xxvii, 652 (1883), portrait; Bookseller 30 July 1863 pp. 356–8.
Note.—Part i of The Pentateuch an edition of 10,000 copies excited much comment and gave rise to the publication of upwards of 130 works in which its principles were adversely criticised. Of the Bishop’s Arithmetic designed for Schools, more than 400,000 copies were sold.
COLERIDGE, Rev. Derwent (younger son of Samuel Taylor Coleridge the Poet 1772–1834). b. Greta hall, Keswick 14 Sep. 1800; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1824, M.A. 1829; master of Helston gr. sch. 1827–41; principal of St. Mark’s college, Chelsea 1841–64; preb. of St. Paul’s 28 Feb. 1846 to death; R. of Hanwell 1864–80; edited works of Hartley Coleridge, S. T. Coleridge, J. Moultrie and W. M. Praed; author of The scriptural character of the English Church 1839; Life of Hartley Coleridge 1849. d. Eldon lodge, Torquay 28 March 1883. The church of England photographic portrait gallery 1859 pt. 9, portrait; Illust. news of the world viii, (1861), portrait; Guardian 18 April 1883 p. 569.
COLERIDGE, Herbert (only son of Henry Nelson Coleridge, chancery barrister 1798–1843). b. Hampstead 7 Oct. 1830; ed. at Eton and Balliol coll. Ox., Balliol scholar 1847, Newcastle scholar 1848, double first class 1852; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1854; member of Philological Soc. Feb. 1857, hon. sec. of a special committee ‘for collecting words and idioms hitherto unregistered,’ this scheme developed into J. A. H. Murray’s ‘New English dictionary’ published by Clarendon Press 1884 etc.; author of Glossarial index to the printed English literature of the thirteenth century 1859. d. 10 Chester place, London 23 April 1861. Macmillan’s Mag. v, 56 (1862).
COLERIDGE, Rev. James Duke (eld. son of James Coleridge of Heath’s Court, Ottery St. Mary, Devon 1760–1836). b. 13 June 1789; ed. at Balliol coll. Ox., B.C.L. 1821, D.C.L. 1835; V. of Kenwyn and Kea, Cornwall 1823–8; R. of Lawhitton, Cornwall 1826–39; V. of Lewannick, Cornwall 1831–41; V. of Thorverton, Devon 1839 to death; preb. of Exeter cath. 5 Aug. 1825 to death; author of A selection of family prayers 1820, 3 ed. 1831; Observations of a Parish Priest in scenes of sickness and death 1825; A companion to first lessons for the services of the Church on Sundays and the fasts and festivals 1838. d. Thorverton 26 Dec. 1857. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i, 79, 313, iii, 1128.
COLERIDGE, Sir John Taylor (brother of the preceding). b. Tiverton 9 July 1790; ed. at Ottery St. Mary, Eton and C.C. coll. Ox., scholar, April 1809; took both Bachelors’ prizes for English and Latin essays 1813; B.A. 1815, M.A. 1817, hon. D.C.L. 1852; Vinerian law scholar 1812; fellow of Exeter coll. 30 June 1812 to 7 Aug. 1818; a certificated special pleader; barrister M.T. 25 June 1819; a bankruptcy comr. 1827; recorder of Exeter, Feb. 1832; serjeant-at-law 14 Feb. 1832; a justice of Court of King’s Bench 27 Jany. 1835 to 28 June 1858; knighted at St. James’s Palace 18 Feb. 1835; member of Inns of Court commission 1834, and of Law Courts commission 1858; P.C. 5 June 1858, member of judicial committee; edited Blackstone’s Commentaries 4 vols. 1825; author of Memoir of the Rev. John Keble 1869, 4 ed. 1874. d. Heath’s Court, Devon 11 Feb. 1876. Law Mag. and law review vii, 263–84 (1859), i, 486–99 (1876); I.L.N. vi, 245 (1845), portrait, xxxiii, 142 (1858), portrait, lxviii, 190, 213 (1876), portrait.
COLERIDGE, Sara (only dau. of Samuel Taylor Coleridge the poet 1772–1834). b. Greta hall near Keswick 22 Dec. 1802; published a translation of Martin Dobrizhoffer’s Account of the Abipones 3 vols. 1822; Pretty lessons for good children 1834; Phantasmion 1837 a fairy tale; edited with her husband, S. T. Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria 1847; one of the three maidens celebrated in Wordsworth’s Trias 1828. (m. 3 Sep. 1829 her cousin Henry Nelson Coleridge, barrister, he was b. 25 Oct. 1798 and d. 26 Jany. 1843). d. Chester place, Regent’s park, London 3 May 1852. Memoir of Sara Coleridge edited by her daughter Edith Coleridge, 4 ed. 1874; G.M. xxxviii, 540–2 (1852).
COLES, Cowper Phipps (3 son of Rev. John Coles 1787–1865, R. of Silchester, Hants.) b. 9 July 1819; entered navy 15 Dec. 1831; captain on h.p. 27 Feb. 1856; C.B. 23 March 1867; carried out an elaborate series of experiments on the methods of applying armour to vessels and mounting guns, the ship ‘Captain’ was built from drawings by Coles and Messrs. Laird 1866–70; author of Our national defences 1861, 4 ed. 1862. (m. 11 March 1856 Emily 3 dau. of Henry S. Pearson, she was granted civil list pension of £150, 11 Feb. 1871, and d. 11 Jany. 1876). drowned in the Captain, off Cape Finisterre 7 Sep. 1870 when nearly all the crew perished. Journal of Royal United Service Instit. iv, 280, vii, 110, xi, 434; I.L.N. xl, 399 (1862), lvii, 307, 329, (1870), portrait.
COLES, Henry Beaumont. b. London 1794; barrister G.I. 30 Jany. 1837; M.P. for Andover 29 July 1847 to 20 March 1857. d. Portman sq. London 23 Nov. 1862.
COLES, Robert Bartlett. b. 1785; cornet 8 dragoons 20 Aug. 1803; major 76 foot 24 Oct. 1821 to 19 Sep. 1826 when placed on h.p.; col. 65 foot 25 July 1857 to death; general 31 May 1865. d. Glencot, Wilts. 27 Oct. 1869.
COLES, William Cowper. Ensign 40 foot 31 Oct. 1805; major 2 Life Guards 21 March 1829 to 20 Jany. 1832 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 9 March 1861. d. Woodcote, Salop 26 Aug. 1867 aged 77.
COLLARD, Frederick William (son of Wm. Collard of Wiveliscombe, Somerset). baptized Wiveliscombe 21 June 1772; employed by Longman, Lukey and Broderip, music publishers at 26 Cheapside, London 1786; pianoforte maker with Muzio Clementi in London 1799 to 24 June 1831, with his brother W. F. Collard to 24 June 1842, with his two nephews 1842 to death; took out many patents for improvements in pianos; supplied bugles, fifes and drums to regiments of East India Co. to 1858. d. 26 Cheapside, London 31 Jany. 1860.
COLLARD, William Frederick (brother of the preceding). baptized at Wiveliscombe 25 Aug. 1776; member of firm of Muzio Clementi and Co. pianoforte makers 26 Cheapside down to 24 June 1831; partner with his brother 1831–42; invented many improvements in pianos. d. Folkestone 11 Oct. 1866.
COLLEDGE, Thomas Richardson. b. 1796; pupil of Sir Astley Cooper; practised in Canton and Macao; founded Medical missionary society in China 1837, pres. 1837 to death; surgeon to consulate at Canton to May 1841 when the office was abolished; M.D. King’s coll. Aberdeen 1839; F.R.C.P. Edin. 1840; F.R.S. Edin. 1844; F.R.C.S. England 1853; lived at Cheltenham 1841 to death. d. Lauriston house, Cheltenham 28 Oct. 1879.
COLLEN, George William. Portcullis pursuivant of arms 6 Nov. 1841 to death; author of Britannia Saxonica, a map of Britain 1833; Debrett’s Peerage continued 1840. d. 52 Camden sq. London 9 Jany. 1878 in 79 year.
COLLETON, Sir Robert Augustus Fulford Graves, 8 Baronet. b. 19 Sep. 1824; succeeded 29 July 1848. d. Fermoy, Ireland 28 Oct. 1866.
COLLETTE, John Hickey. Entered Madras army 1797; col. 7 Madras light cavalry 12 Aug. 1839 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. d. Nice 23 Oct. 1858 aged 77.
COLLEY, Sir George Pomeroy Pomeroy- (youngest son of Hon. George Francis Colley of Ferney, co. Dublin 1797–1879, commander R.N.) b. 1 Nov. 1835; ed. at R.M.A. Sandhurst; ensign 2 foot 28 May 1852, major 12 May 1875 to 24 April 1880 when placed on h.p.; professor at the staff college 1 July 1871 to 30 Nov. 1873; commanded the transport in Ashanti expedition, Dec. 1873 to Feb. 1874; military sec. to Viceroy of India 13 April 1876 to 12 April 1878, private sec. to him 13 April 1878 to 19 Feb. 1880; C.B. 31 March 1874; K.C.S.I. 29 July 1879; assumed additional surname of Pomeroy by r.l. 8 May 1880; author of the article Army in Encyclopædia Britannica, 9 ed., ii, 559–619 (1875); governor and commander in chief Natal 24 April 1880 to death. Shot by the Boers on Majuba hill at Laing’s Nek, North Natal 27 Feb. 1881. Army and navy mag. i, 554–61 (1881), ii, 673–89 (1881), portrait; A narrative of the Boer war by T. F. Carter 1883; T. H. S. Escott’s Pillars of the Empire (1879) 44–50; I.L.N. lxxiv 576 (1879), portrait, lxxviii, 224 (1881), portrait.
COLLIER, Sir Edward (son of Edward Collier of Blockley, Worcs.) b. Blockley 1783; entered navy, Feb. 1796; captain 18 Nov. 1814; V. A. 18 June 1857; retired on a pension 27 Nov. 1857; admiral 4 Oct. 1862; C.B. 18 Dec. 1840; K.C.B. 7 June 1865. d. Blockley 5 Aug. 1872.
COLLIER, Henry Theodosius Browne. b. 1791; entered navy 28 April 1800; captain on half pay 26 Dec. 1822; retired admiral 26 June 1863. d. 25 Ryder st. St. James’s, London 10 Sep. 1872.
COLLIER, John Payne (son of John Dyer Collier of London, writer on the press 1762–1825). b. Broad st. London 11 Jany. 1789; reporter on The Times 1809–21, on the Morning Chronicle 1821–47; summoned before House of Commons 15 June 1819 for misreporting a speech of Joseph Hume, and committed to custody of the serjeant-at-arms; barrister M.T. 6 Feb. 1829; deputy licenser of plays; a founder of the Camden Society 1838; sec. of Royal commission on British Museum 1847–50; accused of having committed many literary frauds in connection with Shakespearian and other documents; granted civil list pension of £100, 30 Oct. 1850; author of Criticisms on the Bar, by Amicus Curiæ 1819; printed privately and anonymously The Poet’s Pilgrimage 1822; published a new ed. of Dodsley’s Old Plays 12 vols. 1825–7; Punch and Judy 1828, anon.; History of English dramatic poetry and annals of the stage 3 vols. 1831, new ed. 1879; Shakespeare’s Library 2 vols. 1843; Shakespeare’s Works 8 vols. 1844, 6 vols. 1858; Notes and emendations to the text of Shakespeare’s plays from the folio in the possession of J. P. C. [i.e. the Perkins folio] 1853; The works of Edmund Spenser 5 vols. 1862. d. Riverside, Maidenhead 17 Sep. 1883. bur. Bray churchyard 20 Sep. J. P. Collier’s An old man’s diary 4 parts 1871–2; Wheatley’s Notes on the life of J. P. Collier 1884; Literary Cookery 1855, anon. by E. A. Brae; Antiquarian Mag. iv, 272–5 (1883); I.L.N. lxxxiii, 309 (1883), portrait; N. E. S. A. Hamilton’s Genuineness of Collier’s Annotated Shakespeare 1860.
COLLINGS, John Elias (son of lieut.-col. Joseph Collings). b. 11 Sep. 1821; ensign 33 foot 21 June 1839, lieut.-col. 17 Nov. 1857 to 28 Oct. 1868 when placed on h.p.; lieut.-col. brigade depôt 1 April 1873 to 24 Jany. 1874 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 18 Sep. 1879; placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 1 July 1881; C.B. 14 Aug. 1868. d. Grange hill, Guernsey 10 Dec. 1886.
COLLINGS, Sir William (2 son of John Collings of St. Peter port, Guernsey). b. St. Peter port 1781; jurat of royal court of Guernsey 1822; knighted at St. James’s palace 2 May 1838; colonel of Royal Guernsey militia to death. d. Guernsey 18 June 1854.
COLLINS, Charles Allston (younger son of Wm. Collins the painter 1788–1847). b. Hampstead 25 Jany. 1828; practised as a painter 1848–58; contributed to Household Words; art critic to the Echo; author of A new sentimental Journey 1859; The eye-witness, seeing is believing 1860; A cruise upon wheels 2 vols. 1862; The bar sinister 2 vols. 1864; Strathcairn 2 vols. 1864; At the bar, a tale 2 vols. 1866. d. Thurloe place, Brompton, London, about midnight 9–10 April 1873. Illustrated Review v, 423–8 (1873), portrait; Graphic vii, 312, 318 (1873), portrait.
COLLINS, Charles James. On the parliamentary staff of the Sun, Daily Telegraph and Standard; edited Comic News 1 May 1847; projected and edited the Racing Times 1861; author of Kenilworth and other burlesques; Life and adventures of Dick Diminy 1854; Sackville Chase 3 vols. 1863; Matilda the Dane, a romance of the affections 1863; The man in chains 3 vols. 1864; Singed Moths, a city romance 3 vols. 1864. d. 9 Manor terrace, Brixton, London 31 Dec. 1864.
COLLINS, Edward Francis. b. North of Ireland 1807; came to London 1832 and became private secretary to Joseph Hume, M.P.; sub-editor of the Sun; edited the Hull Advertiser 1842–66; sub-editor of The Tablet 1868; author of A form of reciting the most holy rosary, compiled for the nuns of the convent of our Lord of Mercy at Hull 1859, anon. d. Upper Clapton near London 3 Jany. 1872.
COLLINS, Frances (dau. of Wm. Dunn of London, engineer). b. 1840 or 1841; author with Mortimer Collins of the novels entitled Frances 3 vols. 1874, another ed. 1880, her name is not on the original ed.; Sweet and twenty 3 vols. 1875, another ed. 1877; The village comedy 3 vols. 1878; You play me false 3 vols. 1878; author of Mortimer Collins, his letters and friendships 2 vols. 1877; A broken lily 3 vols. 1882; author with her cousin F. Percy Cotton of Mudge and her chicks by a Brother and Sister [F.P.C. and F.C.] 1880; The Woodleighs of Amscote by F. Percy Cotton and F. Collins 1881; edited with Tom Taylor Pen sketches by a Vanished Hand, from papers of M. Collins 1879; edited with Edmund Yates Thoughts in my garden by M. Collins 2 vols. 1880. (m. 4 May 1868 Mortimer Collins 1827–76). d. Pine-tree hill, Camberley, Surrey 16 March 1886, cremated at Woking cemetery 20 March.
COLLINS, Henry Powell. M.P. for Taunton 8 Oct. 1812 to 29 Feb. 1820; sheriff of Somerset 1827. d. Weston-super-Mare 22 Aug. 1854 aged 78.
COLLINS, John (eld. son of John Collins, landlord of the Lucan Spa house near Dublin). b. Lucan, Sep. 1804; a cook in his father’s hotel; first appeared in London at Haymarket theatre 29 Aug. 1832 as Captain Macheath in The Beggar’s Opera, chief tenor singer there; original actor of Paul Clifford at Covent Garden 1835; first appeared Park theatre, New York 17 Aug. 1846, the best singer of Irish ballads and humorous songs in America; acted in United States 1846–64, at Adelphi theatre, London, Oct. 1864, in Australia 1866. d. Philadelphia 13 Aug. 1874. Actors by daylight ii, 153 (1839), portrait; Belgravia xvi, 443 (1872); Ireland’s New York Stage ii, 464–5 (1867).
COLLINS, Mortimer, whose full names were Edward James Mortimer Collins (only child of Francis Collings of Kingsbridge, Devon, who d. 1839). b. Plymouth 29 June 1827; reading boy at Gilbert and Rivingtons, St. John’s sq. London 5 May to 29 June 1838; assistant in a shop in Holborn 1838; usher in Rev. Richard Harris’s school at Westbury, Wilts. 1843–5; his first poem, signed E. J. M. C. printed in Bath and Cheltenham Gazette 10 April 1844; contributed to Felix Farley’s Journal at Bristol 1847–9, Paris correspondent 1848; private tutor at Windermere 1847–8; usher at Rev. J. H. Crump’s school, Lechlade, Gloucs. Jany. to June 1849; tutor at Rothwell, Northamptonshire 1849; editor of the Lancaster Gazette, May 1850; master of a school at Launceston for 3 months in 1851; head master of lower school, Elizabeth college, Guernsey 1852–5; contributed to Dublin Univ. Mag. 1851 and to Punch 1853; started the Channel Islands Mag. 1 May 1853, 3 numbers only; opened a private school in Guernsey 1855–6; edited the Leamington Mercury 1856–7; private tutor at Carlisle 1858; edited the Plymouth Mail 1859, Nottingham Guardian 1860–1; contributed to Temple Bar 1861–7; editor of and contributed to The Owl 1864–6; joint editor of The Globe 1866; author of Windermere a poem and Sonnets, Kendal 1848; Idyls and Rhymes 1855; Summer songs 1860; Who is the heir? 3 vols. 1865; A selection from the works of Sir Walter Scott in Moxon’s Miniature Poets 1866; Sweet Anne Page 3 vols. 1868; The Ivory gate 2 vols. 1869; Letter to the Eight Hon. B. Disraeli 1869 in verse, anon.; The Vivian romance 3 vols. 1870; The Inn of strange Meetings, and other Poems 1871; The secret of long life 1871 anon., 5 ed. 1879; Marquis and Merchant 3 vols. 1871; The British birds, a communication from the Ghost of Aristophanes 1872, 2 ed. 1878; The Princess Clarice 2 vols. 1871; Two plunges for a pearl 3 vols. 1872; Squire Sylvester’s Whim 3 vols. 1873; Miranda a Midsummer madness 3 vols. 1873; Mr. Carington, a tale of love and conspiracy by Robert Turner Cotton 3 vols. 1873, pseud.; Transmigration 3 vols. 1874; Blacksmith and Scholar, and from Midnight to Midnight 3 vols. 1876; A fight with fortune, 3 vols. 1876, another ed. 1880. (m. (1) 9 May 1850 at Wargrave, Berks., Susan dau. of William Hubbard, and widow of Rev. J. H. Crump, chaplain of the Mill Hill school, Middlesex, who d. 14 Feb. 1849 aged 46, she d. 5 Aug. 1867 aged 59. m. (2) 4 May 1868 at St. Martins in the Fields, London, Frances dau. of Wm. Dunn of London, engineer, she d. 16 March 1886 aged 45). d. Nightingale hall, Richmond 28 July 1876. bur. Petersham churchyard 1 Aug. Mortimer Collins his letters and friendships, edited by Frances Collins 2 vols. 1877; Dublin Univ. Mag. xc, 340–56, 474–98, 561–93 (1877); I.L.N. lxix, 205, 206 (1876), portrait.
COLLINS, Sam, stage name of Samuel Thomas Collins Vagg (son of Samuel Vagg who d. Uxbridge 13 Feb. 1868). Comic singer at Mogul music hall, Drury lane, London where he made a great hit with the song Paddy’s Wedding; proprietor of Marylebone music hall, London and Welsh harp, Hendon; became bankrupt on his own petition 2 July 1861; sang at all the chief music halls in London and the provinces; proprietor of Lansdowne music hall, Islington green, London, afterwards known as Collins’s music hall 1862 to death. d. 10 Paradise row, Islington 25 May 1865 aged 39. Illust. Sporting news iv, 217 (1865), portrait; Era 28 May 1865 p. 10, 4 June p. 11.
COLLINS, Samuel (son of a hand-loom weaver). b. Hollinwood near Manchester 1 Dec. 1802; a hand-loom weaver; a follower of Henry Hunt and Wm. Cobbett; took part in the meeting at Peterloo 1819; wrote homely verses, some of them in the Lancashire dialect which were collected in a small vol. entitled Miscellaneous poems and songs of S. Collins with a biographical notice by B. Brierley 1859. d. Hale Moss, Chadderton near Manchester 8 July 1878.
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).