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COLES, WILLIAM; b. 10 May 1807; adm. 6 Jun 1817, chorister; left 1823.

COLLCUTT, ARTHUR MAURICE, son of Thomas Edward Collcutt FRIBA, Bloomsbury Square, London, architect, and Emily, dau. of Samuel Tagg, Elsfield, Oxfordshire; b. 30 Mar 1869; adm. (H) 26 Jan 1882; left Whitsun 1884; London Univ., matr. Mar 1886; Gonville and Caius Coll. Camb., adm. pens. 1 Oct 1887, scholar 1889-90, matr. Mich. 1887; BA 1890; MA, MB, BCh 1894; St. Thomas’s Hospital; MRCS, LRCP 1894; in practice at Brighton; Capt., RAMC, 27 Apr 1908; served in 1914-18 war at 2nd Eastern General Hospital; m. 13 Dec 1899 Ada Jane, dau. of Samuel Eli Harris, Hove, Sussex; d. 1 Mar 1933.

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

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.

COLLER, FRANK HERBERT, fourth son of Richard Coller, Birchanger Lodge, Bishop’s Stortford, Herts., landowner, and Annie, dau. of William Langford, The Priory, King’s Lynn, Norfolk; b. 26 Dec 1866; adm. (G) 28 Sep 1876; exhibitioner 1880; QS 1881; Capt. of the School 1884; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1885, matr. 16 Oct 1885; 1st cl. Cl. Mod. 1887, 1st cl. Lit. Hum. 1889; BA 1889; Librarian, Oxford Union, 1889, Pres. 1890; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 3 Nov 1890, called to bar 14 Jun 1893; equity draughtsman and conveyancer; South-Eastern circuit; Chief Justice of St. Lucia 1912; Prize Court Judge, 1914; CB 1 Jan 1919; Secretary, Ministry of Food, 1919-21, Food Dept., Board of Trade, 1921-5; member, Royal Commission on Wheat Supplies, 1922, Royal Commission on Food Reform 1924; author, A State Trading Adventure, 1925; d. 8 Oct 1938.