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COLES, Henry Beaumont. b. London 1794; barrister G.I. 30 Jany. 1837; M.P. for Andover 29 July 1847 to 20 March 1857. d. Portman sq. London 23 Nov. 1862.

COLES, Robert Bartlett. b. 1785; cornet 8 dragoons 20 Aug. 1803; major 76 foot 24 Oct. 1821 to 19 Sep. 1826 when placed on h.p.; col. 65 foot 25 July 1857 to death; general 31 May 1865. d. Glencot, Wilts. 27 Oct. 1869.

COLES, William Cowper. Ensign 40 foot 31 Oct. 1805; major 2 Life Guards 21 March 1829 to 20 Jany. 1832 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 9 March 1861. d. Woodcote, Salop 26 Aug. 1867 aged 77.

COLLARD, Frederick William (son of Wm. Collard of Wiveliscombe, Somerset). baptized Wiveliscombe 21 June 1772; employed by Longman, Lukey and Broderip, music publishers at 26 Cheapside, London 1786; pianoforte maker with Muzio Clementi in London 1799 to 24 June 1831, with his brother W. F. Collard to 24 June 1842, with his two nephews 1842 to death; took out many patents for improvements in pianos; supplied bugles, fifes and drums to regiments of East India Co. to 1858. d. 26 Cheapside, London 31 Jany. 1860.

COLLARD, William Frederick (brother of the preceding). baptized at Wiveliscombe 25 Aug. 1776; member of firm of Muzio Clementi and Co. pianoforte makers 26 Cheapside down to 24 June 1831; partner with his brother 1831–42; invented many improvements in pianos. d. Folkestone 11 Oct. 1866.

COLLEDGE, Thomas Richardson. b. 1796; pupil of Sir Astley Cooper; practised in Canton and Macao; founded Medical missionary society in China 1837, pres. 1837 to death; surgeon to consulate at Canton to May 1841 when the office was abolished; M.D. King’s coll. Aberdeen 1839; F.R.C.P. Edin. 1840; F.R.S. Edin. 1844; F.R.C.S. England 1853; lived at Cheltenham 1841 to death. d. Lauriston house, Cheltenham 28 Oct. 1879.

COLLEN, George William. Portcullis pursuivant of arms 6 Nov. 1841 to death; author of Britannia Saxonica, a map of Britain 1833; Debrett’s Peerage continued 1840. d. 52 Camden sq. London 9 Jany. 1878 in 79 year.

COLLETON, Sir Robert Augustus Fulford Graves, 8 Baronet. b. 19 Sep. 1824; succeeded 29 July 1848. d. Fermoy, Ireland 28 Oct. 1866.

COLLETTE, John Hickey. Entered Madras army 1797; col. 7 Madras light cavalry 12 Aug. 1839 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. d. Nice 23 Oct. 1858 aged 77.

COLLEY, Sir George Pomeroy Pomeroy- (youngest son of Hon. George Francis Colley of Ferney, co. Dublin 1797–1879, commander R.N.) b. 1 Nov. 1835; ed. at R.M.A. Sandhurst; ensign 2 foot 28 May 1852, major 12 May 1875 to 24 April 1880 when placed on h.p.; professor at the staff college 1 July 1871 to 30 Nov. 1873; commanded the transport in Ashanti expedition, Dec. 1873 to Feb. 1874; military sec. to Viceroy of India 13 April 1876 to 12 April 1878, private sec. to him 13 April 1878 to 19 Feb. 1880; C.B. 31 March 1874; K.C.S.I. 29 July 1879; assumed additional surname of Pomeroy by r.l. 8 May 1880; author of the article Army in Encyclopædia Britannica, 9 ed., ii, 559–619 (1875); governor and commander in chief Natal 24 April 1880 to death. Shot by the Boers on Majuba hill at Laing’s Nek, North Natal 27 Feb. 1881. Army and navy mag. i, 554–61 (1881), ii, 673–89 (1881), portrait; A narrative of the Boer war by T. F. Carter 1883; T. H. S. Escott’s Pillars of the Empire (1879) 44–50; I.L.N. lxxiv 576 (1879), portrait, lxxviii, 224 (1881), portrait.

COLLIER, Sir Edward (son of Edward Collier of Blockley, Worcs.) b. Blockley 1783; entered navy, Feb. 1796; captain 18 Nov. 1814; V. A. 18 June 1857; retired on a pension 27 Nov. 1857; admiral 4 Oct. 1862; C.B. 18 Dec. 1840; K.C.B. 7 June 1865. d. Blockley 5 Aug. 1872.

COLLIER, Henry Theodosius Browne. b. 1791; entered navy 28 April 1800; captain on half pay 26 Dec. 1822; retired admiral 26 June 1863. d. 25 Ryder st. St. James’s, London 10 Sep. 1872.

COLLIER, John Payne (son of John Dyer Collier of London, writer on the press 1762–1825). b. Broad st. London 11 Jany. 1789; reporter on The Times 1809–21, on the Morning Chronicle 1821–47; summoned before House of Commons 15 June 1819 for misreporting a speech of Joseph Hume, and committed to custody of the serjeant-at-arms; barrister M.T. 6 Feb. 1829; deputy licenser of plays; a founder of the Camden Society 1838; sec. of Royal commission on British Museum 1847–50; accused of having committed many literary frauds in connection with Shakespearian and other documents; granted civil list pension of £100, 30 Oct. 1850; author of Criticisms on the Bar, by Amicus Curiæ 1819; printed privately and anonymously The Poet’s Pilgrimage 1822; published a new ed. of Dodsley’s Old Plays 12 vols. 1825–7; Punch and Judy 1828, anon.; History of English dramatic poetry and annals of the stage 3 vols. 1831, new ed. 1879; Shakespeare’s Library 2 vols. 1843; Shakespeare’s Works 8 vols. 1844, 6 vols. 1858; Notes and emendations to the text of Shakespeare’s plays from the folio in the possession of J. P. C. [i.e. the Perkins folio] 1853; The works of Edmund Spenser 5 vols. 1862. d. Riverside, Maidenhead 17 Sep. 1883. bur. Bray churchyard 20 Sep. J. P. Collier’s An old man’s diary 4 parts 1871–2; Wheatley’s Notes on the life of J. P. Collier 1884; Literary Cookery 1855, anon. by E. A. Brae; Antiquarian Mag. iv, 272–5 (1883); I.L.N. lxxxiii, 309 (1883), portrait; N. E. S. A. Hamilton’s Genuineness of Collier’s Annotated Shakespeare 1860.

COLLINGS, John Elias (son of lieut.-col. Joseph Collings). b. 11 Sep. 1821; ensign 33 foot 21 June 1839, lieut.-col. 17 Nov. 1857 to 28 Oct. 1868 when placed on h.p.; lieut.-col. brigade depôt 1 April 1873 to 24 Jany. 1874 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 18 Sep. 1879; placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 1 July 1881; C.B. 14 Aug. 1868. d. Grange hill, Guernsey 10 Dec. 1886.

COLLINGS, Sir William (2 son of John Collings of St. Peter port, Guernsey). b. St. Peter port 1781; jurat of royal court of Guernsey 1822; knighted at St. James’s palace 2 May 1838; colonel of Royal Guernsey militia to death. d. Guernsey 18 June 1854.

COLLINS, Charles Allston (younger son of Wm. Collins the painter 1788–1847). b. Hampstead 25 Jany. 1828; practised as a painter 1848–58; contributed to Household Words; art critic to the Echo; author of A new sentimental Journey 1859; The eye-witness, seeing is believing 1860; A cruise upon wheels 2 vols. 1862; The bar sinister 2 vols. 1864; Strathcairn 2 vols. 1864; At the bar, a tale 2 vols. 1866. d. Thurloe place, Brompton, London, about midnight 9–10 April 1873. Illustrated Review v, 423–8 (1873), portrait; Graphic vii, 312, 318 (1873), portrait.

COLLINS, Charles James. On the parliamentary staff of the Sun, Daily Telegraph and Standard; edited Comic News 1 May 1847; projected and edited the Racing Times 1861; author of Kenilworth and other burlesques; Life and adventures of Dick Diminy 1854; Sackville Chase 3 vols. 1863; Matilda the Dane, a romance of the affections 1863; The man in chains 3 vols. 1864; Singed Moths, a city romance 3 vols. 1864. d. 9 Manor terrace, Brixton, London 31 Dec. 1864.

COLLINS, Edward Francis. b. North of Ireland 1807; came to London 1832 and became private secretary to Joseph Hume, M.P.; sub-editor of the Sun; edited the Hull Advertiser 1842–66; sub-editor of The Tablet 1868; author of A form of reciting the most holy rosary, compiled for the nuns of the convent of our Lord of Mercy at Hull 1859, anon. d. Upper Clapton near London 3 Jany. 1872.

COLLINS, Frances (dau. of Wm. Dunn of London, engineer). b. 1840 or 1841; author with Mortimer Collins of the novels entitled Frances 3 vols. 1874, another ed. 1880, her name is not on the original ed.; Sweet and twenty 3 vols. 1875, another ed. 1877; The village comedy 3 vols. 1878; You play me false 3 vols. 1878; author of Mortimer Collins, his letters and friendships 2 vols. 1877; A broken lily 3 vols. 1882; author with her cousin F. Percy Cotton of Mudge and her chicks by a Brother and Sister [F.P.C. and F.C.] 1880; The Woodleighs of Amscote by F. Percy Cotton and F. Collins 1881; edited with Tom Taylor Pen sketches by a Vanished Hand, from papers of M. Collins 1879; edited with Edmund Yates Thoughts in my garden by M. Collins 2 vols. 1880. (m. 4 May 1868 Mortimer Collins 1827–76). d. Pine-tree hill, Camberley, Surrey 16 March 1886, cremated at Woking cemetery 20 March.

COLLINS, Henry Powell. M.P. for Taunton 8 Oct. 1812 to 29 Feb. 1820; sheriff of Somerset 1827. d. Weston-super-Mare 22 Aug. 1854 aged 78.

COLLINS, John (eld. son of John Collins, landlord of the Lucan Spa house near Dublin). b. Lucan, Sep. 1804; a cook in his father’s hotel; first appeared in London at Haymarket theatre 29 Aug. 1832 as Captain Macheath in The Beggar’s Opera, chief tenor singer there; original actor of Paul Clifford at Covent Garden 1835; first appeared Park theatre, New York 17 Aug. 1846, the best singer of Irish ballads and humorous songs in America; acted in United States 1846–64, at Adelphi theatre, London, Oct. 1864, in Australia 1866. d. Philadelphia 13 Aug. 1874. Actors by daylight ii, 153 (1839), portrait; Belgravia xvi, 443 (1872); Ireland’s New York Stage ii, 464–5 (1867).

COLLINS, Mortimer, whose full names were Edward James Mortimer Collins (only child of Francis Collings of Kingsbridge, Devon, who d. 1839). b. Plymouth 29 June 1827; reading boy at Gilbert and Rivingtons, St. John’s sq. London 5 May to 29 June 1838; assistant in a shop in Holborn 1838; usher in Rev. Richard Harris’s school at Westbury, Wilts. 1843–5; his first poem, signed E. J. M. C. printed in Bath and Cheltenham Gazette 10 April 1844; contributed to Felix Farley’s Journal at Bristol 1847–9, Paris correspondent 1848; private tutor at Windermere 1847–8; usher at Rev. J. H. Crump’s school, Lechlade, Gloucs. Jany. to June 1849; tutor at Rothwell, Northamptonshire 1849; editor of the Lancaster Gazette, May 1850; master of a school at Launceston for 3 months in 1851; head master of lower school, Elizabeth college, Guernsey 1852–5; contributed to Dublin Univ. Mag. 1851 and to Punch 1853; started the Channel Islands Mag. 1 May 1853, 3 numbers only; opened a private school in Guernsey 1855–6; edited the Leamington Mercury 1856–7; private tutor at Carlisle 1858; edited the Plymouth Mail 1859, Nottingham Guardian 1860–1; contributed to Temple Bar 1861–7; editor of and contributed to The Owl 1864–6; joint editor of The Globe 1866; author of Windermere a poem and Sonnets, Kendal 1848; Idyls and Rhymes 1855; Summer songs 1860; Who is the heir? 3 vols. 1865; A selection from the works of Sir Walter Scott in Moxon’s Miniature Poets 1866; Sweet Anne Page 3 vols. 1868; The Ivory gate 2 vols. 1869; Letter to the Eight Hon. B. Disraeli 1869 in verse, anon.; The Vivian romance 3 vols. 1870; The Inn of strange Meetings, and other Poems 1871; The secret of long life 1871 anon., 5 ed. 1879; Marquis and Merchant 3 vols. 1871; The British birds, a communication from the Ghost of Aristophanes 1872, 2 ed. 1878; The Princess Clarice 2 vols. 1871; Two plunges for a pearl 3 vols. 1872; Squire Sylvester’s Whim 3 vols. 1873; Miranda a Midsummer madness 3 vols. 1873; Mr. Carington, a tale of love and conspiracy by Robert Turner Cotton 3 vols. 1873, pseud.; Transmigration 3 vols. 1874; Blacksmith and Scholar, and from Midnight to Midnight 3 vols. 1876; A fight with fortune, 3 vols. 1876, another ed. 1880. (m. (1) 9 May 1850 at Wargrave, Berks., Susan dau. of William Hubbard, and widow of Rev. J. H. Crump, chaplain of the Mill Hill school, Middlesex, who d. 14 Feb. 1849 aged 46, she d. 5 Aug. 1867 aged 59. m. (2) 4 May 1868 at St. Martins in the Fields, London, Frances dau. of Wm. Dunn of London, engineer, she d. 16 March 1886 aged 45). d. Nightingale hall, Richmond 28 July 1876. bur. Petersham churchyard 1 Aug. Mortimer Collins his letters and friendships, edited by Frances Collins 2 vols. 1877; Dublin Univ. Mag. xc, 340–56, 474–98, 561–93 (1877); I.L.N. lxix, 205, 206 (1876), portrait.

COLLINS, Sam, stage name of Samuel Thomas Collins Vagg (son of Samuel Vagg who d. Uxbridge 13 Feb. 1868). Comic singer at Mogul music hall, Drury lane, London where he made a great hit with the song Paddy’s Wedding; proprietor of Marylebone music hall, London and Welsh harp, Hendon; became bankrupt on his own petition 2 July 1861; sang at all the chief music halls in London and the provinces; proprietor of Lansdowne music hall, Islington green, London, afterwards known as Collins’s music hall 1862 to death. d. 10 Paradise row, Islington 25 May 1865 aged 39. Illust. Sporting news iv, 217 (1865), portrait; Era 28 May 1865 p. 10, 4 June p. 11.

COLLINS, Samuel (son of a hand-loom weaver). b. Hollinwood near Manchester 1 Dec. 1802; a hand-loom weaver; a follower of Henry Hunt and Wm. Cobbett; took part in the meeting at Peterloo 1819; wrote homely verses, some of them in the Lancashire dialect which were collected in a small vol. entitled Miscellaneous poems and songs of S. Collins with a biographical notice by B. Brierley 1859. d. Hale Moss, Chadderton near Manchester 8 July 1878.

COLLINS, Thomas (2 son of Rev. Thomas Collins, V. of Farnham, Yorkshire who d. 7 May 1870 aged 89). b. 1825; ed. at Charterhouse and Wadham coll. Ox., B.A. 1847; barrister I.T. 4 May 1849; M.P. for Knaresborough 1851–2, 1857–65 and 12 May 1881 to death; M.P. for Boston 1868–74. d. Harrogate 26 Nov. 1884 in 59 year.

COLLINS, William. b. Eastwood, Renfrewshire 12 Oct. 1789; elder of Tron. ch. Glasgow 1814, and chief mover in appointment of Rev. Thomas Chalmers to that ch. 1815; opened first local Sabbath sch. Glasgow 1816; publisher and bookseller; lecturer on Temperance in Scotland and England 1829–34; founder of British and Foreign Temperance Soc. London 1830; founder of 20 new churches in Glasgow 1834 etc.; joined the Free ch. movement in 1843 and aided in erecting many Free churches. d. Rothesay 2 Jany. 1853. Wylie’s Disruption Worthies (1881) 165–72; Burns’s Temperance Dictionary (1864) pp. 433–43.

COLLINS, William Anthony (2 son of Charles Collins of Brixworth hall, Northamptonshire). b. London 1801; ed. at Ch. coll. Cam., B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1829, bencher 1861; Q.C. 22 Feb. 1861. d. Warrior sq. St. Leonard’s on Sea 30 March 1875. bur. Tonbridge, Kent.

COLLINS, Rev. William Lucas (only son of Rev. John Collins of Axwich, Glamorgan). Educ. at Jesus coll. Ox., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841; C. of Great Houghton, Northamptonshire 1835–62; R. of Cheriton, Glamorganshire 1863–7; V. of Kilsby 1867–73; R. of Lowick 1873 to death; V. of Slipton 1876 to death; hon. canon of Peterborough 1871 to death; editor of Ancient classics for English readers 1870, wrote the vols. on Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, Aristophanes, Lucian, Virgil, Plautus, Terence, Cicero, Livy and Thucydides; author of The luck of Ladysmede 1860; The education question 1862; Etoniana ancient and modern 1865; The public schools by W. L. C. 1867; Montaigne in Mrs. Oliphant’s Foreign classics for English readers 1879; Butler in Knight’s Philosophical classics for English readers 1881; La Fontaine and other French fabulists in Foreign Classics 1882; contributed to Blackwood’s Mag. from 1843. d. Lowick rectory 24 March 1887 aged 70. Blackwood’s Mag. cxli, 734–6 (1887).

COLLINSON, James (son of Mr. Collinson of Mansfield, Notts. bookseller). b. Mansfield about 1825; ed. at Royal Academy school; exhibited a picture called ‘The charity boy’s début’ at the R.A. 1847; one of the original 7 brothers of the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood; contributed a devotional poem in blank verse entitled The Child Jesus to the Pre-Raphaelite periodical The Germ 1850; lived in seclusion at Stonyhurst 1851–4; fellow of Society of British Artists. d. of pneumonia at 16 Paulet road, Camberwell, London 24 Jany. 1881. Fraser’s Mag. May 1882 pp. 568–80.

COLLINSON, Rev. John (son of Rev. Richard Collinson of Bristol). Educ. at Winchester and Queen’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1803, M.A. 1806; one of Select Preachers 1809, Bampton Lecturer 1813; R. of Gateshead 1810–40; R. of Boldon, Durham, 1840 to death; hon. canon of Durham 1844 to death; author of Analysis of Hooker’s eight books of ecclesiastical polity 1810; Life of Thuanus with account of his writings 1807; Key to the writings of the Fathers of the Christian church 1813; Observations on the history of the gospel from Solomon’s temple to first Christian century 1830; History of Reformation, from the French of A. Ruchat 1845. d. Boldon 17 Feb. 1857. G.M. ii, 492–93 (1857).

COLLINSON, Sir Richard (son of the preceding). b. Gateshead 7 Nov. 1811; entered navy 2 Dec. 1823; captain 23 Dec. 1842; captain of the Enterprise 14 Dec. 1849 to 6 May 1855 during the expedition to Behring strait in search of Sir John Franklin; granted good service pension 4 Dec. 1857; an elder brother of the Trinity House 1862, deputy master 7 Sep. 1875 to death; V.A. 17 March 1869; retired admiral 30 July 1875; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842, K.C.B. 29 May 1875; F.R.G.S. gold medallist 1848; edited for the Hakluyt Society The three voyages of Martin Frobisher in search of a passage to Cathaia and India by the Northwest 1867. d. Haven Green, Ealing 12 Sep. 1883. Proc. of Royal Geog. Soc. v, 606–9, 734 (1883); I.L.N. xxvi, 472 (1855), portrait, lxxxiii, 309 (1883), portrait.

COLLIS, Rev. John Day (eld. son of Rev. Robert Fitzgerald Collis 1790–1863, preb. of Kilconnel, co. Galway). b. 24 Feb. 1816; ed. at Rugby and Worcester coll. Ox., Eaton scholar 1835, B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841, B.D. and D.D. 1860; Kennicott Hebrew scholar 1839; Pusey and Ellerton Hebrew scholar 1841; fellow of his college; head master of Bromsgrove gr. school Dec. 1842–1867, tercentenary of the school was celebrated 31 March 1853, the chapel was built at cost of £1500, 1856; hon. canon of Worcester 1854 to death; Grinfield lecturer on Septuagint in Univ. of Ox. 1863–65; V. of Stratford-on-Avon 1867 to death; founded Trinity college school at Stratford-on-Avon 27 Jany. 1872; author of The chief rules of Greek accentuation 1849 and other Greek school books; The chief tenses of Latin irregular verbs 1854 and other Latin school books; Historical notes on the church of St. John the Baptist, Bromsgrove 1859; Ponticulus Latinus, History of Rome to destruction of Carthage 1860. d. Shottery hall, Stratford-on-Avon 1 April 1879. bur. Bromsgrove cemetery 4 April.

COLLIS, Maurice Henry (brother of the preceding). b. 1824; ed. at Trin. coll. Dub., B.A. 1847, M.B. 1849, M.D. 1867, L.R.C.S.I. 1847, F.R.C.S.I. 1850; surgeon to Meath Hosp. 1851 to death; pres. of council of Irish Medical Assoc.; author of On the diagnosis and treatment of cancer and the tumours analogous to it 1864. d. Dublin 28 March 1869. Reg. and mag. of biog. i, 404–5 (1869).

COLLS, Rev. John Flowerdew. b. 15 Aug. 1801; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ and Trin. coll. Cam., B.D. 1834, D.D. 1842; R. of Laindon, Herts. 1853 to death; author of Vindication of infant baptism 1829; Utilitarianism unmasked 1844. d. 9 Hanover st. Hanover square, London 19 Nov. 1878.

COLLYER, John (eld. child of the succeeding). b. 15 July 1801; ed. at Charterhouse and Clare coll. Cam., fellow, B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825; barrister L.I. 9 Feb. 1827; commissary of Norwich 1842; judge of county courts, circuit 35, Cambridgeshire, March 1847 to death; author of A practical treatise on the law of Partnership 1832, 2 ed. 1840; Reports of cases decided in the court of Chancery by Sir J. L. Knight Bruce 1844–6, 2 vols. 1845–7; author with Edward Younge of Reports of cases in the court of Exchequer in Equity 1833–41, 4 vols. 1836–46; Reports of cases decided in the court of Chancery by Sir J. L. Knight Bruce 1841–4, 2 vols. 1843–4. d. Hackford hall, Reepham, Norfolk 1 Sep. 1870.

COLLYER, Venerable John Bedingfeld (2 son of Rev. Daniel Collyer of Wroxham hall, Norfolk). b. 26 Jany. 1777; ed. at Clare coll. Camb., B.A. 1798, M.A. 1808; V. of Wroxham, Norfolk 1801 to death; archdeacon of Norwich 23 Sep. 1844 to death; author of Charges and Sermons 1838–56. d. Hackford hall, Norfolk 29 March 1857.

COLLYER, Rev. William Bengo (son of Thomas Collyer of Deptford, builder). b. Deptford 14 April 1782; ed. at the Old college, Homerton; Congregational minister at Peckham 1800 to death, his chapel was rebuilt and reopened under name of Hanover chapel 1816; ordained Dec. 1801, D.D. Edin. 1808; minister at Salter’s hall chapel, Islington 1813 to death; author of Fugitive pieces for the use of schools 1803; Hymns designed as a substitute for Dr. Watts 1812; Services suited to the solemnisation of matrimony with original hymns 1837, and several series of popular lectures on scripture subjects. d. May 1854. European Mag. lxxii, 407–10 (1817), portrait; Waddington’s Congregational history iv, 136–42 (1878); The Unique, vol. 2 (1825), portrait; Some of Dr. Collyer’s errors stated and corrected 1821.

COLNAGHI, Dominic Paul (eld. son of Paul Colnaghi of London, print dealer 1751–1833). b. London 15 July 1790; head of the firm of Paul and Dominic Colnaghi, print dealers 14 Pall Mall East 1833; had a European reputation as an authority on prints; a connoiseur in ancient armour, original possessor of a large portion of the Meyrick collection; retired from business 1865; published Colnaghi’s Patriotic fund almanac 1854; Colnaghi’s Crimean almanac 1855. d. 62 Margaret st. Cavendish sq. London 19 Dec. 1879.

COLOMB, George Thomas. Ensign 96 foot 8 Dec. 1808; captain 5 dragoon guards 17 March 1825 to 27 April 1827 when placed on h.p.; col. 4 West India regiment 24 April 1866 to 3 March 1869; L.G. 31 March 1866; col. 97 foot 3 March 1869 to death. d. Dalkey, co. Dublin 20 March 1874.

COLONSAY, Duncan M’Neill, 1 Baron (2 son of John Mc. Neill of Colonsay, Argyllshire, who d. 1846). b. Colonsay 20 Aug. 1793; ed. at Univs. of St. Andrews and Edin.; called to Scottish bar 1816; advocate depute 1820–4; sheriff of Perthshire, Dec. 1824 to Dec. 1834; solicitor general for Scotland Nov. 1834 to April 1835 and Sep. 1841 to 26 Oct. 1842; Her Majesty’s advocate for Scotland 26 Oct. 1842 to July 1846; dean of faculty of advocates 1843–51; a lord of session 15 May 1851; a lord of justiciary 30 May 1851; lord justice general and pres. of court of session 15 May 1852 to Feb. 1867; P.C. 8 Aug. 1853; M.P. for Argyllshire 1843–51; created baron Colonsay of Colonsay and Oransay in the co. of Argyle 26 Feb. 1867. d. Pau, France 31 Jany. 1874.