Muirhead Collins

Captain Sir Robert Henry Muirhead Collins KCMG, [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]

1852Born 20 September 1852, Chew Magna, Somerset, England
18661877Joins Royal Navy
1876Appointed Lieutenant
1877Appointed Lieutenant Commander; retired from Royal Navy
1877Appointed lieutenant in the Permanent Victorian Naval Forces (PVNF), Victoria, Australia
1884Appointed Commander, PVNF
1886Retired from Victorian navy with rank of Captain
1886Married Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. Samuel Brush, pastoralist, of Boondara, New South Wales.
18861901Secretary for Defence in Colony of Australia
19011906Inaugural Secretary of the Australian Department of Defence
1904Appointed CMG[5]
19061910Official Secretary to the Commonwealth of Australia in London
1913Delegate for the Commonwealth Government at the
International Conference on Lifesaving at Sea in London
1917Retired
1919Knighted KCMG
1927Died 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.

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References
  1. KCMG, London Gazette, 7 October 1919.
  2. Chris Cunneen and Ann G. Smith 'Collins, Sir Robert Henry Muirhead (1852–1927)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 8, (MUP), 1981.
  3. Sir 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
Government offices
New title Secretary of the Department of Defence
1901–1910		 Succeeded by
Sir Samuel Pethebridge



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