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William Whitehouse Collins

William Whitehouse Collins

New Zealand politician (1853–1923)

William Whitehouse Collins (4 September 1853 – 12 April 1923) was a New Zealand Member of Parliament for Christchurch in the South Island.

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Early life

Collins was born on 4 September 1853 in Harborne, Staffordshire, England and came to New Zealand in 1890. He married Alice Annie Skinner, a daughter of Ehenezer Skinner of Sydney, in 1886.[1][2]

Member of Parliament

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Collins represented the City of Christchurch electorate in the House of Representatives from 1893 to 1896 and again between 1899 and 1902.[3] He also stood in the 1896 election, but was narrowly defeated.[4]

He was a rationalist (free-thought) lecturer and was involved with the English Secularists and obtained a diploma from the National Secular Society.[5]

The Canterbury Freethought Association was established in Christchurch in 1881 and ran until 1917. Collins left for Sydney in 1918 and died there on 12 April 1923.[2][6]

References

  1. [1]
    "Mr. William Whitehouse Collins". Christchurch: The Cyclopedia Company Limited. 1903. Retrieved 1 March 2010.
  2. [2]
    Stenhouse, John. "Collins, William Whitehouse". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 4 April 2011.
  3. [3]
    Wilson, James Oakley (1985). The New Zealand Parliamentary Record: 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: Government Printer. p. 190.
  4. [4]
    "Mr. William Whitehouse Collins". Christchurch: The Cyclopedia Company Limited. 1903. Retrieved 1 March 2010.
  5. [5]
    Hamer, David (1988). The New Zealand Liberals: the years of power, 1891–1912. Auckland: Auckland University Press. pp. 50, 362. ISBN 1-86940-014-3.
  6. [6]
    James, R. H. (n.d.), The Canterbury Freethought Association 1881–1917 [unpublished manuscript], n.p.: n.p.

Further reading

Works by Collins

  • Collins, William Whitehouse (c. 1910), Rationalist burial service, Christchurch, [N.Z.]: N.Z. Rationalist Association
  • Collins, William Whitehouse (1911), Ferrer and his enemies, Christchurch, [N.Z.]: N.Z. Rationalist Association
  • Collins, William Whitehouse (1914), The bible in schools question, Christchurch, [N.Z.]: Printed by the Lyttelton Times Co.

Works about Collins

  • Hamer, David (1988), The New Zealand Liberals: the years of power, 1891–1912, Auckland, N.Z.]: Auckland University Press, ISBN 1-86940-014-3
  • James, R. H. (n.d.), The Canterbury Freethought Association 1881–1917 [unpublished manuscript], n.p.: n.p.
  • This document is held within the Canterbury Museum Documentary Research Centre, Christchurch.
  • Lineham, Peter J. (1985), "Freethinkers in nineteenth-century New Zealand", New Zealand Journal of History, 19 (1): 61–81
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