About C. H. Collyns
Lived 1820 – 1885 (aged 64–65). C. H. Collyns was a translator.
Charles Henry Collyns (1820 – 8 July 1885) was an English priest, translator and activist for temperance and vegetarianism.
Biography Collyns was born in Exeter in 1820. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, and was admitted to orders in 1844. During 1844–1845 he was curate of St Mary Magdalen's Church, Oxford. From 1867 to 1874 he was Headmaster of the Grammar School at Wirksworth, Derbyshire.
Collyns became a vegetarian in 1872 and joined the Vegetarian Society in September 1873. He also translated Jean-Antoine Gleizes' Thalysie, but it was not published. He died age 65 in Sheffield on 8 July 1885. The Jubilee of Teetotalism (1882)
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English priest and translator
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C. H. Collyns died on 8 July 1885 in Sheffield.
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