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Muirhead Collins

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Captain Sir Robert Henry Muirhead Collins {{post-nominals|country=AUS|size=100%|sep=,|KCMG|RN}}^[1] (1852–1927) was an English-born Royal Navy officer, Colonial (Permanent Victorian Naval Forces) naval officer, Colonial public servant, Australian Federationist, Australian public service department head and Australia's official representative in London.^[2]^[3]

Life summary

^[2]^[3]^[4]

1852	Born 20 September 1852, Chew Magna, Somerset, England
1866	1877	Joins Royal Navy
1876	Appointed Lieutenant
1877	Appointed Lieutenant Commander; retired from Royal Navy
1877	Appointed lieutenant in the Permanent Victorian Naval Forces (PVNF), Victoria, Australia
1884	Appointed Commander, PVNF
1886	Retired from Victorian navy with rank of Captain
1886	Married Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. Samuel Brush, pastoralist, of Boondara, New South Wales.
1886	1901	Secretary for Defence in Colony of Australia
1901	1906	Inaugural Secretary of the Australian Department of Defence
1904	Appointed CMG^[5]
1906	1910	Official Secretary to the Commonwealth of Australia in London
1913	Delegate for the Commonwealth Government at the International Conference on Lifesaving at Sea in London
1917	Retired
1919	Knighted KCMG
1927	Died 19 April 1927, Bath, Somerset, England^[6]

Collins was born to Dr Charles Howell Collins, a surgeon, and his Henrietta Jane Heaven (née Groset). Collins died in 1927 and was survived by his wife and their son, Major Howel Collins (graduated from Royal Military Academy in Woolwich) of the Australian Army.

References

1. ^KCMG, London Gazette, 7 October 1919.
2. ^¹Chris Cunneen and Ann G. Smith 'Collins, Sir Robert Henry Muirhead (1852–1927)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 8, (MUP), 1981.
3. ^¹Sir R. M. Collins. Death in New York., The Register, 21 April 1927, pg.9. trove.nla.gov.au
4. ^Collins, Sir Robert Henry Muirhead (1852–1927), Life Summary, Australian Dictionary of Biography
5. ^CMG, 24 June 1904, It's an Honour. Citation: Secretary of the Department of Defence
6. ^http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/collins-sir-robert-henry-muirhead-5741

External links

Olwen Prike (1984) Australia House: A Little Australia in London, Backburning, pp. 163–171,254–256. www.api-network.com
Lieutenant Robert Henry Muirhead Collins, Victorian Navy. www.cerberus.com.au

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