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Collins, Samuel (1)

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a scholar of the 17th century, was the son of Baldwin Collins, who was born at. Coventry, a pious preacher, very bountiful to the poor, and whom queen Elizabeth constantly called father Collins. Samuel was born and educated at Eton; became fellow of King's College, Cambridge; afterwards provost and. regius professor there, being a man of admirable wit and memory, and the most fluent Latinist of the age. He retained his professorship throughout his life read his lectures twice a week for forty years, declined the bishopric, of Bristol, and died in 1651. See Fuller, Worthies of England (ed. Nuttall), 1:209.

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McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Collins, Samuel (1)'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tce/​c/collins-samuel-1.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.
 
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