About Ernest Collins
Lived 1851 – 1914 (aged 63). Ernest Collins was a civil engineer.
Ernest Collins (18 February 1851 – 20 April 1914) was a British water supply engineer.
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.
After serving his articles to Ruston, Proctor and Company, of Lincoln, he took a post with Hopkins, Gilkes & Company.
In 1883, Collins introduced the almost universally adopted system of testing and stamping water fittings.
He was also Chairman of Council of Hampstead General Hospital.
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