C. H. Collyns
{{short description|English priest, translator and activist (1820–1885)}}
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| honorific_prefix = The Reverend
| name = C. H. Collyns
| image = C. H. Collyns.png
| birth_date = 1820
| birth_place = Exeter, England
| death_date = {{Death date|1885|07|08|df=y}} (aged 65)
| death_place = Sheffield, England
| alma_mater = Christ Church, Oxford
| occupation = Priest, translator, activist
}}
Charles Henry Collyns (1820 – 8 July 1885) was an English priest, translator and activist for temperance and vegetarianism.
Biography
Collyns was born in Exeter in 1820.Winskill, P. T. (1892). [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015019184350&view=2up&seq=385&skin=2021 The Temperance Movement and its Workers, Volume 3]. London: Blackie & Son. p. 37 He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, and was admitted to orders in 1844. During 1844–1845 he was curate of St Mary Magdalen's Church, Oxford. From 1867 to 1874 he was Headmaster of the Grammar School at Wirksworth, Derbyshire. Collyns was a teetotaller. He was secretary of the British Temperance League which was the oldest national temperance organization in England.{{cite journal|year=1884|title=The Late Charles Henry Collyns, M.A.|journal=The Dietetic Reformer and Vegetarian Messenger |url=https://archive.org/details/pamphletsi00char/page/232/mode/2up|volume=11|issue=152|pages=233–234}}Fahey, David M. (2020). Temperance Societies in Late Victorian and Edwardian England. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 10. {{ISBN|978-1-5275-5857-1}}
Collyns became a vegetarian in 1872 and joined the Vegetarian Society in September 1873. He later became a vice-president of the society. Collyns was also a member of the Anti-Compulsory Vaccination League, Anti-Narcotic League and the United Kingdom Alliance. He translated the works of Pacian published in the Library of the Fathers in 1844.{{cite journal|author=Pfaff, Richard W.|year=1973|title=The Library of the Fathers: The Tractarians as Patristic Translators|journal=Studies in Philology|volume=70|issue=3|pages=329–344|jstor=4173813}} He also translated Jean-Antoine Gleizes' Thalysie, but it was not published.
Collyns suffered from gout.{{cite journal|year=1877|title=Vegetables vs. Gout|journal=The Health Reformer|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015076974180&view=2up&seq=216&skin=2021&size=175|volume=12|issue=7|pages=210}} He died age 65 in Sheffield on 8 July 1885.
Selected publications
- [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015076974180&view=2up&seq=173&skin=2021&size=175&q1=collyns Simplicity of Tastes] (Vegetarian Society, 1879){{Cite web |title=Simplicity of tastes / by C.H. Collyns - Catalogue {{!}} National Library of Australia |url=https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/catalog/965144 |access-date=2024-07-09 |website=NLA Catalogue |publisher=National Library of Australia |language=en}}
- [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433006252039&view=2up&seq=203&skin=2021 The Jubilee of Teetotalism] (1882)
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Category:19th-century English clergy
Category:19th-century English translators
Category:Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford
Category:English temperance activists
Category:English vegetarianism activists