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Collingwood, Cuthbert, 1826-1908

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  • Person
  • 1826-1908

Cuthbert Collingwood was born on December 25, 1826, probably at Christchurch, Hampshire, England.

He was an English naturalist, physician, and scientific writer. He attended King's College School and Christ Church College at Oxford where he graduated with a B.A. degree in 1849, proceeding to an M.A. degree in 1852 and an M.B. degree in 1854. He subsequently studied at Edinburgh University and spent some time in the medical schools of Paris and Vienna. From 1858 to 1866 he held the appointment of lecturer on botany at the Liverpool Royal Infirmary School of Medicine. He was elected Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1853 and he served on its council in 1868. He also lectured on biology at the Liverpool School of Science. From 1866 to 1867 he served as surgeon and naturalist on HMS Rifleman and HMS Serpent on voyages in the China Seas and made researches in marine zoology. He became the senior physician of the Northern Hospital in Liverpool and took part in the intellectual life of the city. In 1876, he travelled to Palestine and Egypt. In the later years of his life, he lived in Paris but returned to England in 1907. In 1865, Collingwood published “Twenty-one Essays on Various Subjects, Scientific and Literary”, and he wrote on his expeditions in “Rambles of a Naturalist on the Shores and Waters of the China Seas” (1868). He wrote also “The Travelling Birds” (1872), and forty papers on natural history in scientific periodicals. Collingwood was a prominent member of the New Jerusalem Church. He published expositions of his religious beliefs, including “A Vision of Creation” (1872), a poem with a geological introduction; “New Studies in Christian Theology” (anon. 1883), and “The Bible and the Age, Principles of Consistent Interpretation” (1886).

He married Clara Mowbray (d. 1871). He died on October 20, 1908, in Lewisham, England.

Collins, Aileen

  • https://lccn.loc.gov/n87137463
  • Person
  • 1930-2019

Collins, Arthur, 1682?-1760

  • https://lccn.loc.gov/n85099823
  • Person
  • 1682?-1760

Arthur Collins, Esq., was likely born in 1682 in England, the son of William Collins, Esq., a Gentleman Usher to Queen Catherine and Elizabeth Blythe.

He was an English antiquarian, genealogist, historian, and author. After receiving a liberal education, he worked as a bookseller across from St. Dunstan's Church on Fleet Street for at least some of his life. He is best known for his work “Peerage of England” (1709, 1712). Subsequent editions included an increasing number of added volumes, with the fifth edition, published in 1778, containing eight volumes. Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (1762-1837) released the nine-volume sixth edition in 1812, bringing all of the book's contents up to date and describing Collins as "a most industrious, faithful, and excellent genealogist" whose only failing was a habit of regarding rank and titles with "too indiscriminate respect and flattery." Collins also published “Cases of Baronies” (1734); “Baronetage” (5 vols., 1741), and “Letters &c. of the Sidneys” (1746). He also published two biographies: “Life of Lord Burleigh” (1732) and “Life of Edward the Black Prince” (1750).

He got married around 1708 and died in March 1760 in England.

Collins, Brendan

  • https://lccn.loc.gov/no2008076324
  • Person
  • 1965-

Collins, Charles

  • Person
  • 1680-1744

Charles Collins was an Irish painter, known for his portraits of animals and still-lifes. He achieved success in England painting exotic birds, game, dogs and dead game still-lifes. He was the painter for Robert Furber’s ‘Twelve Months of Fruit’ (1732). In 1736 he published in collaboration with John Lee a set of 12 large engravings, coloured by hand, of British birds in landscape and garden settings, entitled Icones avium cum nominibus anglicis. He then came to the attention of Taylor White, who engaged him to paint birds from his and others’ collections until 1743. Collins died in 1744, when he was described as ‘Bird Painter to the Royal Society.’

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