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	AIM25: Senate House Library, University of London: Collins, Sir William Job
		During his career Collins was also involved in many aspects of anatomy and ophthalmology, receiving the Doyne Medal for the latter from Oxford University in 1918.
		William Job Collins was also Vice-Chancellor of the University of London, 1907-1909, 1911-12, and a member of the University Senate, 1893-1927.
		Though many of Collins' correspondents were fellow physicians and scientists, there is little in the correspondence relating to medical or scientific subjects.
	www.aim25.ac.uk /cats/14/1731.htm (652 words)

	William Collins (Poet) - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		WILLIAM COLLINS (1721-1759), English poet, was born on the 25th of December 1721.
		In 1749 Collins was raised beyond the fear of poverty by the death of his uncle, Colonel Martyn, who left him about 2000, and he left London to settle in his native city.
		Distinction may be said to be the crowning grace of the style of Collins; its leading peculiarity is the incessant personification of some quality of the character.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /William_Collins_(Poet) (1168 words)

	William Collins (Lord Provost) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sir William Collins (1817-1895) was a famous figure in the temperance movement who served as Glasgow's Lord Provost between 1877 and 1880.
		In 1868, his two sons became partners in the business and it was renamed William Collins, Sons and Co.
		Sir William Collins was also politically active, campaigning for the temperance cause throughout his life.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Collins_(Lord_Provost) (232 words)

	Collins, William Criticism and Essays
		Collins is considered one of the most important transitional Preromantic figures in English poetry.
		Included among the best of the lyric poets of the eighteenth century, Collins is acclaimed for his experimentation with the ode, his descriptions of human emotions, and the vivid personifications found in his imagery.
		Some scholars believe that he is both, embodying enough of the rationality and restraint of the earlier age to be identified with his contemporaries, while foreshadowing the Romantic period with his experiments in the ode form and the new personal element in his descriptions.
	www.enotes.com /literary-criticism/collins-william (763 words)

	Wilkie Collins
		His father was William Collins, a well-known landscape painter, and mother Harriet (Geddes) Collins, the daughter of a painter.
		In the 1860s Collins published No Name (1862), in which a young woman learns that she and her sister are illegitimite and penniless after the death of their father, but starts her countermove to regain her inheritance.
		During the 1860s Collins started to suffer severely from the rheumatic pains, and became addicted to laudanum, a form of opium, that was used perhaps more heavily by Thomas De Quincey or Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
	www.classicreader.com /author.php/aut.15 (873 words)

	Mr. Collins' Secret Love
		Collins," she had ordered, "you must choose a wife who is a useful sort of person, not too proud and who has been brought up to know her place.
		Collins shouted, "have a care with that it is the future mistress' marriage gift form her Ladyship." Dawkins stood looking at the grotesque porcelain clock, he had never seen such a monstrosity before.
		Collins began to think he had indeed made a good choice of a wife, she was his friend, his companion; but he still dreamt of Lydia.
	thedwg.com /derby/oldc/bodec2.htm (4263 words)

	Collins, (William) Wilkie Criticism and Essays
		By the twentieth century, Collins began to receive recognition for his innovations in the detective genre, for his unconventional representation of female characters, and for his emphasis on careful plotting and revision, a practice that foreshadowed modern methods.
		Collins lived with his mistress—said to have been the model for the “woman in white”—and supported, in addition, another woman by whom he had three illegitimate children.
		Collins has been called “the father of the English detective novel” and many critics have observed that his principal strength lies in his expert maneuvering of characters through complex plots.
	www.enotes.com /nineteenth-century-criticism/william-wilkie-collins (802 words)

	Tantor Audio Books : Wilkie Collins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Sergeant Cuff from Collins' well-known novel THE MOONSTONE became a prototype of the detective hero in English fiction.
		Collins tackled social issues and many of his novels contain sympathetic portraits of physically abnormal individuals.
		Collins was born in London in 1824 to William Collins, a well-known landscape painter, and Harriet Collins, the daughter of a painter.
	www.tantor.com /AuthorDetail.asp?Author=Collins_W (284 words)

	Glasgow University Archive Services - Collections - Summary Catalogue - Records of William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd, ...
		William Collins (1789-1853), the founder of Collins, Sons and Co Ltd, was born in 1789 in Glasgow, Scotland, and became a teacher.
		William (II) joined his father’s business as an apprentice and in 1848 was admitted as a partner, coinciding with a general expansion of the business.
		William Hope Collins continued the company’s reputation for caring for their workers by developing the pension and profit sharing schemes and by the creation of a health and welfare department in the 1950s.
	www.archives.gla.ac.uk /collects/catalog/ugd/201-250/ugd243-1.html (1533 words)

	TGS - 1830s to 1914 - Personalities - Sir William Collins
		Sir William Collins helped to reshape Liberal Party organisation in Glasgow during the late 19th century.
		Collins inherited his father's commitment to social activism and both men belonged to the evangelical Free Church.
		Contemporaries frequently described Collins junior as a "Puritan" and this image of moral earnestness was compounded by his advocacy of teetotalism.
	www.theglasgowstory.co.uk /story.php?id=TGSDH06 (305 words)

	Comprehensive information and links about Joan Collins
		Her younger sister is Jackie Collins, a famous novelist; and her much-younger brother is William Collins, an estate agent.
		Collins was born in London, England to Joseph William "Will" Collins (a South African-born Jewish talent agent) and Elsa Bessant (an English mother).
		During this horrific time Collins and her husband bought a trailer and parked it in the hospital parking lot in order to be as close to their daughter as possible.
	www.quicknation.com /Joan_Collins.htm (1055 words)

	William Collins R.A.
		William Collins R.A. William Collins R.A. William Collins R.A. was one of the best known artists of his time.
		The main source of information about William's pictures is his son's Memoirs of the Life of William Collins, Esq., R.A. In an appendix (II pp341-352) Wilkie lists 218 major oil paintings, dated and with details of where they were exhibited, who bought them and at what price.
		This version was engraved in mezzotint by William Ward ARA and published by William's brother Francis Collins in April 1820.
	www.wilkiecollins.demon.co.uk /wilkiefamily/william.htm (587 words)

	Wilkie Collins
		Sergeant Cuff from Collins' novel THE MOONSTONE (1868) became a prototype of the detective hero in English fiction.
		His father was William Collins, a well-known landscape painter and a full member of the Royal Academy.
		Collins fills the story with forebodings - the reader knows that the narrator's luck is not natural, that he should not trust the old soldier, and there is something wrong with the room.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /collins.htm (1495 words)

	Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice -- Index of Characters
		William COLLINS, Rector of Hunsford in Kent, cousin and heir to Mr. Bennet; 25; was at one of the Universities.
		What this means is that Sir William Lucas is an irresponsible parent -- he has taken on the airs of gentility without the ability to give his children (except possibly the eldest son) the necessary wealth to support this status; the effect of this on Charlotte is seen in her marriage.
		If Sir William had been more responsible, he would have done what the father or grandfather of the Bingleys did -- keep working until definitely wealthy, and then let the next generation be "genteel".
	www.pemberley.com /janeinfo/ppdrmtis.html (4245 words)

	Wilkie Collins and laudanum
		Collins took opium from the early 1860s in the form of laudanum to alleviate the symptoms of gout and rheumatic pain.
		Collins recorded in the Memoirs of William Collins, R.A. that to relieve pain his father took 'Battley's Drops' which contained opium, sherry, alcohol, calcium hydrate, and distilled water
		Collins described to both William Winter and Mary Anderson how he wrote much of the book under the effects of opium and when finished hardly recognised the work as his own.
	www.wilkie-collins.info /wilkie_collins_opium.htm (612 words)

	MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF WILLIAM COLLINS
		William Collins, R.A. The Memoirs was Collins's first published book, a biography of his father published in 1848.
		It was dedicated to Sir Robert Peel, a valued patron of William Collins.
		William Collins had always intended his biography to be written by his son.
	www.wilkie-collins.info /books_memoirs.htm (418 words)

	LitWeb.net
		Collins saw her first at a mysterious midnight encounter of which he made use in THE WOMAN IN WHITE (1860).
		In the 1860s Collins published NO NAME (1862), in which a young woman learns that she and her sister are illegitimate and penniless after the death of their father, but starts her countermove to regain her inheritance.
		For further reading: Wilkie Collins: A Biography by Kenneth Robinson (1951); Wilkie Collins by Robert Ashley (1952); The Life of Wilkie Collins by Nuel Pharr Davis (1956); Wilkie Collins: the Critical Heritage, ed.
	www.biblion.com /litweb/biogs/collins_wilkie.html (1123 words)

	William Collins Whitney (1841-1904) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		"William Collins Whitney was born in rural Massachusetts in 1841 of estimable lineage but slender fortune.
		William Collins Whitney prepared for college at Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Mass., and entered Yale in 1859, graduating with honors in the Class of 1863.
		Almeric Hugh Paget, Henry William, second Earl of Uxbridge (1768-1854), who was a famous leader of cavalry under Sir John Moore in the Peninsula War, and commanded with brilliant success the combined forces of cavalry and horse artillery under the Duke of Wellington at Waterloo.
	www.whitneygen.org /archives/biography/williamc.html (2533 words)

	TheGlasgowStory: Sir William Collins
		Sir William Collins (1817-1895) was a book publisher and Lord Provost, 1877-1880.
		The son of the owner of a printing and stationery business in Townhead, Collins became a partner in his father's business in 1848 when it went into publishing.
		Collins was a member of the Free Church.
	www.theglasgowstory.co.uk /image.php?inum=TGSA00020 (135 words)

	Wilkie Collins
		Following his father's death in 1847, Collins wrote and published The Memoirs of the Life of William Collins, Esq., R. (1848), a memoir of his father; from that point on, he would release a novel every year or so, along with a smattering of short stories.
		Collins took heavy does of laudanum for his ailment; not coincidentally, opium plays a major role the book.
		Collins was a close friend of Charles Dickens, with whom he collaborated on several projects.
	www.nndb.com /people/325/000052169 (860 words)

	Glasgow, CA/002, Drinking Fountain,
		Commissioned by temperance reformers to commemorate Collins' services to their cause.
		The fountain was erected in 1881, during Collins' lifetime, and inaugurated on 29th October of that year.
		Since then the fountain has been relocated several times in the immediate vicinity of its present location.
	pmsa.cch.kcl.ac.uk /GW/CA-002.htm (328 words)

	Wilkie Collins - His Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		William Wilkie Collins was born in London on 8 January 1824, the oldest son of William Collins, RA, a fashionable painter.
		Collins was named after a friend of the family, Sir David Wilkie, RA.
		Then abruptly, she married someone else, and Collins took up with Martha Judd, by whom he had three children, but again never formally marrying her.
	www.rightword.com.au /writers/wilkie/wc/wclife.html (414 words)

	William Collins (1788 - 1847) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		Portrait of a Man Samuel Collins (British, 1735?—1768)Ivory; Oval, 1 5/8 x 1 1/4 in.
		>a href=http://www.jancollinsselman.com>Jan Collins Selmans Expressionistic landscape paintings have won her a place in the permanent collections of three Massachusetts museums: Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Duxbury Art Museum Complex, and Prov...
		Politics is represented by Baroness Thatcher and Tony Blair, Philosophy by Sir Isiah Berlin, Art by Elizabeth Frink, David Hockney and Henry Moore, Theatre by Dame Judi Dench, Sir John Gielgud and Sir Nigel Hawthorne.
	www.wwar.com /masters/c/collins-william.html (1405 words)

	These Cults: Chapter VII
		Sir Charles Bell, a distinguished British physiologist and anatomist, whose discovery of distinct functions of the nerves was regarded as the greatest addition to medical knowledge since Harvey's demonstration of the circulation of the blood, in his book on "The Nervous System of the Human Body" (p.
		Cowpox, which furnished the original seed virus for the cult of Jenner, was a somewhat mysterious malady of restricted incidence—appearing only on the udders of milch-cows and never occurring among the male bovines—and was thought by the best authorities to be syphilis of the cow, communicated to her from the syphilitic hands of the milkers.
		When Sir Charles Creighton, England's most famous epidemiologist, was Invited to write the article on Vaccinaion for the 9th edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, it was supposed, presumably, that he would write in favor of it, since he was "a regular" of the straightest pattern, with degrees from Aberdeen, Berlin and Vienna.
	www.soilandhealth.org /03sov/0303critic/030315cults/cults-ch7.htm (5975 words)

	William Collins — FactMonster.com
		A precursor of the 19th-century romantics, Collins wrote exquisite verse that emphasized mood and imagination.
		William COLLINS - COLLINS, William (1818—1878) COLLINS, William, (son of Ela Collins), a Representative from...
		Ela COLLINS - COLLINS, Ela (1786—1848) COLLINS, Ela, (father of William Collins), a Representative from New...
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0812897.html (198 words)

	William Job Collins - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Job Collins (May 9, 1859, London - Dec 11, 1946, London) was a surgeon and later politician and legislator.
		He was the eldest son of William Job Collins (also a doctor) and Mary Anne Francisca (nee Treacher).
		He was awarded a KCVO in 1914, and served as Vice-Lieutenant of the County of London, 1925-1945.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Job_Collins (419 words)

	Philip Voyle Thorne's Notes and Comments
		William Thorne was born "not later than" 1617, undoubtedly in England.
		William Thorne is also the ONLY Thorne to have been made a Freeman in the history of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
		7 September 1641; William Thorne was fined 6 2/3 pounds for concealing, hiding and supplying the escaped son and son-in-law of Ann Marbury Hutchinson (Francis Hutchinson and William Collins); (all were opponents of the Church of Boston).
	thorn.pair.com /williamthorne1/pvtcmnts.htm (1552 words)

	Dr Collins on smallpox vaccination (1883)
		His father, also called William J. Collins (Sir, K.C.V.O.), was a public vaccinator for 20 years before renouncing vaccination, for reasons outlined in two tracts: Twenty Year's Experience as a Public Vaccinator H. Lewis: London, 1866 (read before the Sanitary Committee of St Pancreas, 9th June, 1863) and Have you been Vaccinated?
		Final report of the Royal commission appointed to inquire into the subject of vaccination.Author: Collins, William Job, Picton, J. Allanson Publication: London, Printed for Her Majesty's Stationery Office, by Darling and son, 1896
		COLLINS, Sir William Job (1859-1946) Biography, ref: GB 0096 MS 812, Senate House Library, University of London.
	www.whale.to /vaccines/smallpox21.html (270 words)

	Sir William Duncan Building - University of Strathclyde
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	www.strath.ac.uk /maps/sirwilliamduncanbuilding (60 words)

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