William Edward Collins

William Edward Collins (18 February 1867 – 24 March 1911) was an Anglican Bishop of Gibraltar from 1904 until his death in 1911.

Biography William Edward Collins was the second son of Joseph Henry Collins, a mining engineer. One of his brothers was the mining engineer Arthur L. Collins who was murdered in the United States. His sister Helen Miriam Stuart Collins married in 1912 The Rev. Reginald Frederick Moody, who was the youngest son of the clergyman James Leith Moody.

He was born in London, but his father moved to Cornwall while he was a child. He was educated at Nuttall's and Chancellor's schools in Truro, and at Selwyn College, Cambridge.

He was ordained in 1891 and began his career as a curate at All Hallows-by-the-Tower in the City of London.

After a short spell as a Lecturer at Selwyn College, Cambridge, he became Professor of Ecclesiastical History at King's College London where he remained until his elevation to the episcopate. He was consecrated as a bishop on the Feast of the Conversion of St Paul on 25 January 1904, at Westminster Abbey by Archbishop of Canterbury Randall Davidson. As Bishop of Gibraltar he worked from The Convent, which was the residence of the Governor of Gibraltar. He is interred at the St. John the Evangelist's Anglican Church, İzmir, Turkey. His biography was written by Arthur James Mason.