Author: Collins, Charles
Biography:
COLLINS, Charles (1800-66: ancestry.co.uk)
He was baptised on 19 Mar. 1800 at St. Giles-in-the Fields, Camden, London, the eldest son of Charles Collins and Jane Forman, who had married in Greenwich in 1797. His father died aged 29 in 1806 at Grove House, near Ashbourn, Derbyshire, and was commemorated in a poem. His elder sister, Jane, is also the subject of a poem, “Reflections.” He was educated at Rugby and St. John’s College, Cambridge (matric. 1818, BA 1822, MA 1825) and then entered the church. After Cambridge he spent some time in Ireland where he married, on 18 June 1823 at Golden, Tipperary, Anna Matilda Creaghe, the “beautiful and accomplished daughter” of Richard Creaghe of Castle Park, Golden. They went on to have six children. The marriage report also identified him as the author of a “collection of highly-admired English and Latin poems.” He returned to England and was Curate at the Kingsthorpe Chapel, Northampton (1824-27). He later held various livings, mostly in Kent: Frinsted (1831-42), Milton (1844-47), and Faversham (1847-66) where he was also chaplain to the borough gaol. The volume listed here, Juvenile Blossoms (1822), reprints two poems privately printed by Hodson at Cambridge, Comala and Death on a Pale Horse. He also published Green Leaves; or, Lays of Boyhood (1844), which contained an early poem written at Rugby; “The Death of the Princess Charlotte” (1817); further Latin translations; and many poems to his wife (“Neaera”). He died on 18 May 1866 at Faversham. (ancestry.co.uk 28 Dec. 2021; CCEd 28 Dec. 2021; Northampton Mercury 3 May 1806; Southern Reporter 24 June 1823; Cambridge Chronicle 26 May 1866; GM June 1866, 929) AA
Other Names:
- C. C.