Family and Personal Life
Away from cricket, Colchin chose to lead a shadowy existence among "low company" and is believed to have been something of an underworld figure. His dubious lifestyle may have contributed to his death.
According to The Connoisseur (see above), Colchin's favourite amusement was attending the executions at Tyburn. He had been "born and bred a gentleman, but has taken great pains to degrade himself, and is now as complete a blackguard as those whom he has chosen for his companions". The companions are said to include "the vulgar" among whom Colchin "has cultivated an intimacy with Buckhorse (i.e., John Smith, a noted prizefighter), and is very proud of being sometimes admitted to the honour of conversing with the great Broughton himself (Jack Broughton was probably the most famous prizefighter of the 18th century)".
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