Robert Martin Collins

Robert Martin Collins (17 December 1843 – 18 August 1913) was an Australian explorer, grazier, member of both the Queensland Legislative Council and the Queensland Legislative Assembly.

Early life Collins was born in December 1843 at Sydney, New South Wales, to John Collins and his wife Anne (née Martin). A year after he was born, his family moved to the Logan district of Queensland to take shares in Mundoolun, a property that a friend of his father had taken up. He served the electorate for three years before Plunkett regained the seat at the 1899 election.

In June 1913, Premier Digby Denham appointed Collins to the Legislative Council but he served only two months before his death in August of that year. A sign of his importance and the respect he held with the public was that a special train was engaged to take the hundreds of mourners from Brisbane to his funeral, returning home late that evening.