Life
Born in Dublin, Collins was educated at The Royal School, Dungannon, Trinity College, Dublin, and Downing College, Cambridge.
In 1867, he was called to the English bar and joined the northern circuit. He was made a Queen's Counsel in 1883 and a judge in 1891.
Having made a Lord Justice of Appeal in 1897, he was appointed also to the Privy Council. In 1901, Collins became Master of the Rolls, and on 6 March 1907 Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, receiving additionally a life peerage with the title Baron Collins, of Kensington in the County of London. He resigned as Lord of Appeal on 9 January 1910.
Lord Collins was judge of the first trial against Oscar Wilde on 3 April 1895. He represented Great Britain on the Venezuela Boundary Commission, established to adjudicate in the boundary dispute between British Guiana and Venezuela in 1899. In 1904, he was chairman of the commission which investigated the case of Adolf Beck.
He died at Hove, East Sussex and is buried in Brompton Cemetery.
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