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]

Collins, Lancelot Owen, son of Owen Hyman Collins FRIBA of Maidenhead, and Gertrude Olive Harrington of Reading; b. 12 Mar. 1917; adm. Jan. 1931 (B); left Dec. 1932; ARIBA 1938; served Recce Corps in WW2; sen. asst architect Middx CC; jun. asst architect Isle of Ely CC 1962-6; princ. asst architect King's Lynn BC 1966-73; asst district architect W. Norfolk DC 1973; m. 1st 1 Sept. 1939 Diana Margaret, d. of Ernest Lancaster-Jones, chief librarian S. Ken­sington Science Museum; 2nd Margaret, d. of Frank Thorn of Warrington, Lancs; d. 30 Jan. 1988.

Collins, John Barrington, brother of Wilfred Desmond de Fonblanque Collins (qv); b. 14 Jan. 1920; adm. Sept. 1931 (A); left July 1934; a tobacco grower in S. Rhodesia; served in WW2 with Rhodesian forces; d. 2009.

Collins, James Mottershead, son of James Mottershead Collins, of Sydenham, Kent; b., June 21, 1877; adm. May 8, 1891 (H); left July 1893.

Collins, Henry Akerman Desmond, son of Henry Ellis Collins, of Barnes, by Mary, daughter of William Henry Hine Akerman, of Bridgwater, Somerset; b. Nov. 8, 1880; adm. May 2, 1895 (A); left Dec. 1897; adm. a solicitor Dec. 5, 1904; asst. solicitor to the Metropolitan Water Board 1905; solicitor 1930-40; Capt. 11th Batt. London Regt. May 27, 1914; Major Sept. 3, 1916; served with the 54th (East Anglian) Div. in Gallipoli, Egypt and Palestine; 2nd i/c and O. C., 57th Batt. Kent H. G., 1940-5; Major; T. D.; m. Aug. 28, 1913, Winifred, daughter of Charles Wakely, of Sidcup, Kent.

Collier, Lionel Williams, son of Roy Collier, of West Brompton; b. Sept. 5, 1892; adm. Jan. 18, 1906 (G); left Easter 1909; served in France with the London Rifle Brigade and obtained a commission in the Somerset Light Infantry April 5, 1915; wounded May 5, 1915; transferred to R.A.F.; wounded again July 1, 1917; m. June 11, 1921, Marjory Vyse, only child of Charles Willoughby Williams, of Chelsea, barrister-at-law.

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

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.

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).