Arthur Collins

(1682-1760)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Collins, Arthur, 1682?-1760 NRA: Collins, Arthur (? 1690-1760) Author of the 'peerage' DNB: Collins, Arthur (1681/2-1760), genealogist LBT ID: ArColli1760 VIAF ID: 5995757 LOC ID: n85099823	B/BAP: 1682 DIED: 1760-03-16
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
English antiquary and bookseller; the first edition of his famous work appeared in 1709 as The Peerage of England, or, an historical and genealogical Account of the present Nobility.
REFERENCES TO Arthur Collins: Sydney Smith to Lady Mary Bennet, [October or November 1821] in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Found 1: ¶ 4 Galt, John, 1779-1839, The Life of Lord Byron (London: Henry Colburn, 1830) Chapter I Found 1: ¶ 6 Maginn, William, 1793-1842, “Galt’s Life of Byron” in Fraser’s Magazine 2 (October 1830) 347-70 Found 1: ¶ 11 Saba Holland, A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Letters 1822