William Collins (Warwick MP)

{{Short description|British politician}}

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|office = Member of Parliament
for Warwick

|term_start = 28 March 1837

|term_end = 7 July 1852

|predecessor = Charles Canning
Edward Bolton King

|successor = George Repton
Edward Greaves

|alongside = Charles Eurwicke Douglas (Jul 1837–1852)
Edward Bolton King (Mar. 1837–Jul. 1837)

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|death_date = 1859

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William Collins (died 1859){{cite web |last1=Rayment |first1=Leigh |title=The House of Commons: Constituencies beginning with "W" |url=http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Wcommons1.htm|website=Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page |accessdate=22 December 2018|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180717175034/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Wcommons1.htm|archivedate=17 July 2018 |url-status=usurped |date=13 June 2017 }} was a British Whig politician{{cite news |title=State of Polls, & Members Returned |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000150/18370727/052/0003 |accessdate=17 July 2018 |work=Worcester Journal |date=27 July 1837 |page=3 |via = British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription }}{{cite news |title=The Appropriation Clause |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000183/18370828/029/0004 |accessdate=17 July 2018 |work=London Evening Standard |date=28 August 1837 |page=4 |via = British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription }}{{cite news |title=Elections |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001057/18370728/013/0003 |accessdate=17 July 2018 |work=Saunders's News-Letter |date=28 July 1837 |page=3 |via = British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription }}{{cite book|first1=Edward|last1=Churton|author-link1=Edward Churton|title=The Assembled Commons or Parliamentary Biographer: 1838|date=1838|page=60|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FVwEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA60 |via=Google Books |accessdate=22 December 2018}}{{cite book |last1=Stooks Smith |first1=Henry |title=The Parliaments of England, from 1st George I., to the Present Time. Vol II: Oxfordshire to Wales Inclusive |date=1845 |publisher=Simpkin, Marshall, & Co. |location=London |pages=100–102 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HacQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA100 |via=Google Books |accessdate=22 December 2018}}

Collins was elected a Whig Member of Parliament for Warwick at a by-election in 1837—caused by the succession of Charles Canning to the peerage—and held the seat until 1852 when he did not seek re-election.{{cite book|editor1-last=Craig|editor1-first=F. W. S.|editor-link=F. W. S. Craig|title=British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885|date=1977|publisher=Macmillan Press|location=London|isbn=978-1-349-02349-3|edition=1st|page=320}}