Ernest Collins

Ernest Collins (18 February 1851[1] – 20 April 1914) was a British water supply engineer.

Not to be confused with Earnest Collins, Ernest Collinge, or Ernie Collins (disambiguation).

Collins caricatured by "Ape junior" in Vanity Fair, 1911

He was born in Harefield, Middlesex, the fifth son of the Rev. Robert Cave Wood Collins, then Vicar of Harefield, and his wife, Rachel Vernor Miles.[1] He was educated at Aldenham Grammar School and Neuchâtel.[2]

After serving his articles to Messrs. Ruston, Proctor and Company, of Lincoln, he took a post with Hopkins, Gilkes & Company.[2]

In 1880, he joined the staff of the New River Company, which provided a supply of clean water to London via an artificial waterway. He was their chief engineer when the company was transferred to the Metropolitan Water Board and in 1905 was appointed Engineer of the New River District, a position he held until his retirement in 1911. He was elected a Member of the Institute of Civil Engineers (M.I.C.E) in 1892.[3]

In 1883, Collins introduced the almost universally adopted system of testing and stamping water fittings.[4]

He was also Chairman of Council of the Hampstead General Hospital.[2]

He died in Christchurch, Hampshire in 1914, aged 63.[5]

References
  1. London, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1917
  2. Pike, William Thomas (1910). British Engineers and Allied Professions in the Twentieth Century: Contemporary Biographies. W. T. Pike. p. 86. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
  3. "ERNEST COLLINS-obituary". icevirtuallibrary.com. Retrieved 25 August 2013.
  4. Greenwell, Allan (1896). Rural Water Supply: A Practical Handbook on the Supply of Water & Construction of Waterworks for Small Country Districts. Lockwood. p. 150. Retrieved 4 March 2019. Ernest Collins.
  5. England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1837-1915
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