Collins, Samuel (3)
Collins, Samuel (1)
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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Collins, Samuel (2)
a Congregational minister, was born at Columbia, Connecticut in 1747. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1775; was ordained pastor in Sandown, N.H., in 1780; in 1788 was installed pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Hanover Centre, and in 1795 removed to Craftsbury, Vermont, where he was pastor of the Congregational Church until 1804. He died January 7, 1807. Se Cong. Quarterly, 1864, page 157.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Collins, Samuel (3)
an English Baptist minister, was born at Culworth, Northamptonshire, December 22, 1798. He was received into the Church at the age of twenty, and manifested a desire to preach, in 1826 went to supply the pulpit at Grundesburgh, and after preaching one year was chosen pastor of the society, in which relation he continued for nearly fifty years. He took an active part in the organization of the Suffolk County Home Mission in 1831, and was its secretary for more than forty years. He originated, in 1833, the Gospel Herald, a low-priced Baptist magazine, and edited it for twenty-five years. He was unable to preach during the last three years of his life, and died June 17, 1881. See (Lond.) Baptist Hand-book, 1882, page 298.