C. H. Collyns

English priest and translator
C. H. Collyns
Born1820
Exeter
Died8 July 1885
Sheffield
Occupation(s)Priest, translator

Charles Henry Collyns (1820 – 8 July 1885) was an English priest, temperance activist, translator and vegetarian.

Collyns was born in Exeter.[1] 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.[1] Collyns was a teetotaller and vegetarian. He was secretary of the British Temperance League which was the oldest national temperance organization in England.[2][3]

Collyns became a vegetarian in 1872 and joined the Vegetarian Society in September 1873 whilst a resident at Wirksworth.[2] He became a vice-president of the Vegetarian Society. He was also a member of the Anti-Compulsory Vaccination League, Anti-Narcotic League and the United Kingdom Alliance.[2] He translated the works of Pacian published in the Library of the Fathers in 1844.[4] He also translated Jean-Antoine Gleizes' Thalysie, but it was not published.[2]

Collyns suffered from gout.[5] He died age 65 in Sheffield on 8 July 1885.[1]

Selected publications

  • Simplicity of Tastes (Vegetarian Society, 1879)[6]
  • The Jubilee of Teetotalism (1882)

References

  1. ^ a b c Winskill, P. T. (1892). The Temperance Movement and its Workers, Volume 3. London: Blackie & Son. p. 37
  2. ^ a b c d "The Late Charles Henry Collyns, M.A." The Dietetic Reformer and Vegetarian Messenger. 11 (152): 233–234. 1884.
  3. ^ Fahey, David M. (2020). Temperance Societies in Late Victorian and Edwardian England. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 10. ISBN 978-1-5275-5857-1
  4. ^ Pfaff, Richard W. (1973). "The Library of the Fathers: The Tractarians as Patristic Translators". Studies in Philology. 70 (3): 329–344. JSTOR 4173813.
  5. ^ "Vegetables vs. Gout". The Health Reformer. 12 (7): 210. 1877.
  6. ^ "Simplicity of tastes by C.H. Collyns". catalogue.nla.gov.au. Retrieved October 3, 2022.
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