Collins, William Frederick, brother of Henry Akerman Desmond Collins (q.v.); b. Jan. 19, 1883; adm. Sept. 24, 1896 (A); left Dec. 1897; Royal School of Mines; London Univ.; a mining engineer; adm. to the Inner Temple Nov. 18, 1909; became a tobacco grower at lnjino, Marandellas, Southern Rhodesia; served in Great War I as Capt. of Chinese Labour Corps, and as Staff-Capt. Salvage Control, G. H. Q.; author of Mineral Enterprise in China (1919) and Dogs of China and Japan (1921); m. Dec. 7, 1916, Mary Evelyn de Fonblanque; d. 1961.
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