Researching James Collin
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 1560 people with the Collin surname? In that year Collin was ranked number 2123 for popularity in the UK. |
The name James means "one who supplants" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of James Collin on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for James Collin and the Collin Genealogy
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Some Famous People called James Collin
James Edward Collin
James Edward Collin (16 March 1876, Kirtling – 16 September 1968) was an English entomologist who specialised in Diptera.
He was the author of Empididae. British Flies, Volume 6. University Press, Cambridge (1961). This was the third volume in an uncompleted series begun by his uncle George Henry Verrall.
Collin wrote extensively on Diptera of most families of Diptera (excepting those in Nematocera). The specimens collected by Collin and his uncle Verrall are in the Hope Entomological Collections at the University of Oxford. The OUM website provides a searchable database of the new species they described.
He was a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society and its president 1927–1928.
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