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COLT, EDWARD WILLIAM, eldest son of Rev. David Williams, Rector of Nannerch, Flints., Hon. Canon St Asaph, and Martha Elizabeth Flora, elder dau. of Sir Edward Vaughan Colt, Bart.; b. 17 May 1846; adm. 23 Jun 1859; BB 6 Oct 1860; QS 1861; rowed against Eton 28 Jul 1864; elected to Ch. Ch. Oxford 1865, matr. 7 Jun 1865; BA 1869; MA 1891; an Inspector of Schools from 1871; assumed surname of Colt in lieu of Williams, 1892; m. 28 Sep 1871 Caroline, second dau. of T. Timberlake, Pembroke Street, Oxford; d. 29 Dec 1904.

COLMAN, GEORGE, son of Francis Colman, British Resident at Court of Tuscany, and Mary, dau. of John Gumley MP, Isleworth, Middlesex, Commissioner-Gen. of Musters, and sister-in-law of William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath (qv); bapt. 18 Apr 1732; adm. Oct 1741; KS 1746; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1751, matr. 5 Jun 1751, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1751 - void 25 Jun 1764; BA 1755; MA 1758; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 14 Jan 1752, called to bar 24 Jan 1757; Oxford circuit; joint editor with Bonnell Thornton (qv) of The Connoisseur, 1754-6; his first play, Polly Honeycombe, was produced at Drury Lane 5 Dec 1760; his Jealous Wife, the most popular comedy of its day, appeared in the following year, and The Clandestine Marriage, written in collaboration with his friend David Garrick, in 1766; manager, Covent Garden Theatre 1767-74, Haymarket Theatre 1777-89; member, Society of Dilettanti, 1778; edited The Dramatic Works of Beaumont and Fletcher, 1778; translated The Comedies of Terence, 1765, and Horace’s Art of Poetry, 1783; m. Sarah Ford, actress; d. 14 Aug 1794. DNB.

COLLYNS, CHARLES BAYLEY, son of George Nelson Collyns MRCS LSA, Moreton Hampstead, Devon; b. 16 May 1859; adm. 12 Jun 1873; QS 1874; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1878, adm. pens. 1 Jun 1878, sizar 1881, matr. Mich. 1878; BA 1882; ordained deacon 1883, priest 1884 (St. Albans); Curate, Leytonstone, Essex, 1883-5, Stoke Damerel, Devon, 1885-95; Vicar of Plymstock, Devon, from 1895; m. 1st, 14 Sep 1887 Agnes Emma, younger dau. of J. W. L. Ashe, Bexley, Kent; m. 2nd, 2 Feb 1910 Helena Sarah, widow of Rev. Richard Trezise Tyacke, Rector of Meavy, Devon, and of Rev. C. Scott, Vicar of Seaton, Devon, and dau. of William Henry Rough (qv); d. 8 Jun 1913.

Collison, David Michael, son of Robert Lewis Wright Collison, librarian and author, of Hampstead, and Mary Patricia Daws, d. of Capt. Frederic Herbert James Marshall OBE, Rifle Brigade, of Croydon; b. 18 May 1936; adm. Sept. 1949 (KS); left July 1954; Magdalene Coll. Camb., matric. 1956, BA 1959, MA 1963; a computer programmer; d. 12 Mar. 1991 in California, USA.

COLLIS, WILLIAM BLOW, eldest son of William Blow Collis DL, Wollaston Hall, near Stourbridge, Worcs., and Anne, dau. of James Horman, Franche, Kidderminster, Worcs.; b. 7 Feb 1839; adm. 23 Jan 1851 (Scott's); QS Oct 1853; left May 1856; mining engineer and colliery manager; of Swinford House, near Stourbridge, Worcs.; JP (1905) Worcs.; m. 1864 Helen Firmstone, dau. of Henry Cosser, Swinford House, Worcs.; d. 24 Apr 1922.

COLLINS, WILLIAM, son of Antony Collins, Witney, Oxfordshire, and Elizabeth Sylvester (IGI); bapt. Witney, Oxfordshire 16 Feb 1752 (IGI, sic); adm. 21 Nov 1768; KS (aged 15) 1769; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1773, matr. 11 Jun 1773, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1773 - void 10 Oct 1789 (expiry year of grace as R. Slapton); BA 1777; MA 1780; ordained deacon (Oxford) 14 Jun 1778, priest 20 Dec 1778; Perpetual Curate, Cogges and Hailey, Oxfordshire; Rector of Slapton, Bucks., from 18 Oct 1788; d. Apr 1808.

COLLINS, VINCENT; b.; adm.; Min. Can. 1636; KS 1637. [Presumably Vincent Collins, son of Thomas Collins, and Dorothy ---, bapt. St. Bride, Fleet Street 23 Oct 1622 (IGI); his parents were doubtless Thomas Collins and Dorothy Vinson (sic), who had m. at St. Benet, Paul Wharf 13 Dec 1621]

COLLEY, JOSEPH; b.; adm.; QS 1705; left 1708.

College, the home of the Queen’s Scholars and the oldest house at Westminster, was effectively founded in 1560 when the school’s charter stipulated that there should be 40 Queen’s Scholars. Special weight in their selection was to be given to ability, good character and poverty. To become Scholars, boys had to pass an oral examination known as ‘The Challenge’, which shifted to paper in 1856.
Scholars had special privileges not accorded to other boys, such as the right to enter the Palace of Westminster.
The Scholars include John Dryden, the first Poet Laureate (1631-1700); John Locke (1632-1704), the empiricist philosopher; A. A. Milne (1882-1956), creator of Winnie-the-Pooh; and Kim Philby (1912-1988), of the Cambridge spy ring. The first female scholars were admitted to College in 2017.

COLLE, ---; b. ; adm. ; KS in 1626 (Chapter Muniments 33256).