Educated at Balliol College, Oxford, he was perpetual curate of Cornelly in Cornwall (1835-47) and chaplain of the Truro Infirmary. He was a college friend of Robert Southey before they quarrelled in 1794.

REFERENCES TO Jeremiah Collins:

Robert Southey to Nicholas Lightfoot, 24 April 1807 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)