William Collins (bishop)
{{short description|19th and 20th-century Anglican bishop}}
{{For|the New Zealand doctor and sportsman|William Collins (New Zealand surgeon)}}
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| name = William Edward Collins
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| title = Bishop of Gibraltar
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| birth_date = 18 February 1867
| birth_place = London, England
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| death_place = Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
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| occupation = Cleric
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| predecessor = Charles Sandford
| successor = Henry Knight
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| parents = Joseph Henry Collins and Frances Miriam Denny
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William Edward Collins (18 February 1867 – 22 March 1911) was an Anglican bishop, Bishop of Gibraltar[http://www.gibconnect.com/~holytrinity/lower.php?filename=bishops.php Bishops of Gibraltar] from 1904 until his death.Obituary The Bishop Of Gibraltar The Times Saturday, Mar 25, 1911; pg. 11; Issue 39542; col B“Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 {{ISBN|978-0-19-954087-7}}
Biography
William Edward Collins was the second son of Joseph Henry Collins, a mining engineer and writer on geology. He was born in London, but his father moved to Cornwall while he was a child. One of his brothers was Arthur L. Collins, a mining engineer who was murdered in the United States. He was educated at Nuttall's and Chancellor's schools in Truro and at Selwyn College, Cambridge.{{acad|id=CLNS884WE|name=Collins, William Edward}} Ordained in 1891,The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, John Phillips, 1900 he began his career as a curate at All Hallows-by-the-Tower in the City of London. After a short spell as a Lecturer at his old college he became Professor of Ecclesiastical History at King's College London where he remained until his elevation to the episcopate. As Bishop of Gibraltar he worked from The Convent, which was the residence of the Governor of Gibraltar, although he had his own house in Malta. He was consecrated a bishop on the Feast of the Conversion of St Paul 1904 (25 January), at Westminster Abbey by Randall Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury.{{Church Times | title = Consecration of bishops | archive = 1904_01_29_131 | issue = 2140 | date = 29 January 1904 | page = 131 | accessed = 20 September 2020 }} A Sub-Prelate of the Order of St John of Jerusalem, he died on 22 March 1911 in Constantinople.{{cite book|last=Mason|first=Arthur James|title=Life of William Edward Collins, Bishop of Gibraltar|year=1912|publisher=Longmans, Green|url=https://archive.org/details/lifeofwilliamedw00masoiala}} He is interred at the St. John the Evangelist's Anglican Church, İzmir in Turkey.
Collins' life was described in a biography by Arthur James Mason.
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Category:Alumni of Selwyn College, Cambridge
Category:Academics of King's College London
Category:20th-century Anglican bishops of Gibraltar
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