William Collett

(1772 c.-1830)

NAME AUTHORITIES: DNB: Colling, Mary Maria (1804–1853), poet and domestic servant LBT ID: WiColle1830	B/BAP: 1772 DIED: 1830-12-31
SOURCES: Gentleman's Magazine (Supplement to Part II, 1831) 646; Prance, Companion to Charles Lamb (1983)
He was an accountant at the East India House and colleague of Charles Lamb.
REFERENCES TO William Collett: Charles Lamb to Walter Wilson, August 1832 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 4 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1832 Found 1: ¶ 3