Английская Википедия:David Collins (lieutenant governor)

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Colonel David Collins (3 March 1756 – 24 March 1810) was a British Marine officer who was appointed as Judge-Advocate to the new colony being established in Botany Bay. He sailed with Governor Arthur Phillip on the First Fleet to establish a penal colony at what is now Sydney. He became secretary to the first couple of Governors, later being appointed to start a secondary colony where he founded the city of Hobart as the founding Lieutenant Governor of Van Diemen's Land (later becoming the state of Tasmania).

Early life and military career

David Collins was born 3 March 1756 in London, the third and oldest surviving child of Arthur Tooker Collins (1718–1793), an officer of marines (later major-general) and Henrietta Caroline Шаблон:Née (died 1807) of King's County, Ireland.[1] His grandfather Arthur Collins (1684–1760) was author of Collins's Peerage of England.[2]Шаблон:Sfn

The family lived in Saffron Hill, London, until 1765 when they moved to Devon after his father as a lieutenant colonel was made commandant of the Plymouth division of marines.Шаблон:Sfn Collins was educated at Exeter Grammar School,Шаблон:Sfn before at the age of 14 joining the marines as an ensign in his fathers division.Шаблон:Sfn He was promoted second lieutenant on 20 February 1771.Шаблон:Sfn In 1772 Collins was serving aboard the frigate Шаблон:HMS when it was sent to Denmark to retrieve King George III's sister Queen Caroline Matilda after she was banished from Denmark for an illicit romance.Шаблон:Sfn

American Revolutionary War

In March 1775, Collins sailed to Boston, Massachusetts, with two battalions of marines, to help the Governor of Massachusetts Thomas Gage reinforce the town.[2]Шаблон:Sfn Collins was named second lieutenant to Captain Thomas Lindsay in the third company of the First Battalion of Marines.Шаблон:Sfn On 17 June, Collins took part in General William Howe's bayonet charge and capture of Breed's Hill in the Battle of Bunker Hill to hold the heights of Charlestown.Шаблон:Sfn He was promoted to first lieutenant the following week.[2]Шаблон:Sfn

On 17 March 1776, the British evacuated from Boston to Halifax, Nova Scotia.Шаблон:Sfn Here he met Maria Stuart Procter, the daughter of Captain Charles Procter, whom he married on 13 June 1777.[2] Collins's battalion was recalled to England in 1777, where Collins became adjutant of the battalion at Chatham. He was promoted captain-lieutenant in August 1779, and captain in July 1780. In February 1781, Collins was posted as captain for a detachment of marines aboard the 74-gun Шаблон:HMS in the Channel Squadron commanded by Admiral Richard Howe, where he took part in the relief of Gibraltar. In September 1783 Collins was put onto half-pay.[2]Шаблон:Sfn

Colonial Administration

New South Wales

In October 1786, after three years on half-pay stationed at Chatham, Collins volunteered for service in the proposed penal colony of New South Wales. On 29 November, and despite a lack of legal training, he was named Judge Advocate for the new colony and chief judge for a military court administering the New South Wales Marine Corps.Шаблон:Sfn In May 1787 he sailed aboard the First Fleet, reaching Sydney Cove in January 1788.Шаблон:Sfn

In June or July 1788, Governor Phillip appointed Collins as the Secretary to the Governor, or Secretary to the Colony as the position was sometimes called. Collins filled the three roles of Secretary, Judge Advocate and Lieutenant Governor until he left the colony for England in 1796.[3][4]

Victoria and Tasmania

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Collins also established the first, short-lived settlement in what is now the state of Victoria at Sullivan Bay on Port Phillip in 1803. He sailed from England in April aboard Шаблон:HMS, arriving at Port Phillip in October to found a penal colony. After landing at Sullivan Bay near present-day Sorrento, he sent First Lieutenant James Hingston Tuckey of the Calcutta to explore Port Phillip. Tuckey's report, and Collins' own dissatisfaction with the site chosen, prompted him to write to Governor King, seeking permission to remove the settlement. When King agreed, Collins decided to move the colony to the Derwent River, on the island of Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania). He arrived there in February 1804 on Ocean, and established what would become the town of Hobart.

Collins left no published account of his work as Lieutenant-Governor at Port Phillip, nor later as the founder of Hobart.

Legacy

The name of St David's Church, Hobart was chosen to commemorate Colonel David Collins.[5]

His name has been given to Collinsvale in Tasmania, Collins Street, Melbourne, Collins Parade, Sorrento (adjacent to the site of the failed settlement) and Collins Street, Hobart. At Exeter Grammar School, now known as Exeter School, where he was educated, there is a house named after him.

Collins was portrayed by David Dawson in the 2015 TV series Banished.[6]

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  1. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  2. ↑ 2,0 2,1 2,2 2,3 2,4 Шаблон:Cite Australian Dictionary of Biography
  3. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  4. ↑ David Collins Шаблон:Webarchive, State Library
  5. ↑ Шаблон:Cite news
  6. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
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