Bernard Collins

{{short description|English cricketer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}}

{{Use British English|date=September 2019}}

{{Infobox cricketer

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| country = England

| fullname = Bernard Abdy Collins

| birth_date = 17 February 1880

| birth_place = Saxmundham, Suffolk, England

| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1951|10|22|1880|2|17}}

| death_place = Bedford, Bedfordshire, England

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| batting = Right-handed

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| club1 = Oxford University

| year1 = 1901

| club2 = Suffolk

| year2 = 1904

| columns = 1

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 1

| runs1 = 83

| bat avg1 = 83.00

| 100s/50s1 = –/1

| top score1 = 83*

| hidedeliveries = true

| catches/stumpings1 = 1/–

| date = 12 July

| year = 2019

| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/11241.html Cricinfo

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Bernard Abdy Collins {{postnominal|CIE}} (17 February 1880 – 22 October 1951) was a British administrator in India and English first-class cricketer.

Collins was born at Saxmundham in February 1880 to Henry Abdy Collins and his wife, Florence Ellen Cartwright.{{cite web|url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p3618.htm#i36177 |title=Bernard Abdy Collins |publisher=www.thepeerage.com |accessdate=2019-07-10}} He was educated at Malvern College,{{cite book |title=The Malvern Register, 1865-1904 |first=Charles Buller |last=Heberden |date=1905 |publisher=Malvern Advertiser |pages=329 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tjk4AAAAMAAJ |language=en}} before going up to Brasenose College, Oxford.{{cite book |title=Brasenose College Register, 1509-1909 |first1=Laurence Sidney |last1=Milward |first2=Edward Clifford |last2=Bullock |date=1909 |publisher=Oxford Historical Society at the Clarendon Press |pages=240 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XfRAAAAAYAAJ |language=en}} While studying at Oxford, he made a single appearance in first-class cricket for Oxford University against the Marylebone Cricket Club at Oxford in 1901.{{cite web|url=http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/28/28645/First-Class_Matches.html |title=First-Class Matches played by Bernard Collins |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2019-07-12 |url-access=subscription}} Collins batted twice in the match at number eleven. He was dismissed in the Oxford first-innings and was dismissed without scoring by John Rawlin. In their second-innings he top-scored with an unbeaten 83, sharing in a last wicket partnership of 149 with Frank Hollins.{{cite web|url=http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/5/5632.html |title=Oxford University v Marylebone Cricket Club, 1901 |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2019-07-12 |url-access=subscription}} In addition to playing first-class cricket, Collins also played minor counties cricket for Suffolk in 1904, making five appearances in the Minor Counties Championship.{{cite web|url=http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/28/28645/Minor_Counties_Championship_Matches.html |title=Minor Counties Championship Matches played by Bernard Collins |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2019-07-12 |url-access=subscription}} He was also the editor of 'Psychic Science' and the author of the book 'Death is Not the End' (Psychic Press, London 1939) in which he puts forth the case for survival after death.

Collins was admitted to the Indian Civil Service in October 1904.{{London Gazette|city=Edinburgh|issue=11669|date=4 November 1904|page=1154}} He served as the director-general of commerce and industry in Hyderabad State,{{cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/234473.html |title=Wisden - Obituaries in 1951 |publisher=ESPNcricinfo |accessdate=2019-07-12}} and was later made a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire in December 1925.{{London Gazette|issue=33119|date=29 December 1925|page=6|supp=y}} He died at Bedford in October 1951.