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Daniel Collins (priest)

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Daniel Collins STP (died 29 March 1648) was a Canon of Windsor from 1631 to 1648[1]

Career

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He was educated at Eton College and King's College, Cambridge and graduated BA in 1599, MA in 1601, BD in 1609 and DD in 1626.

He was appointed:

  • Lecturer at Tring, Reader in Divinity at Ruislip
  • Rector of Puttenham, Hertfordshire 1610
  • Lecturer at Windsor
  • Chaplain to King Charles I
  • Fellow of Eton 1616 - 1648 and Vicar Provost
  • Vicar of Ruislip 1617 - 1633, and 1640 - 1641
  • Rector of Cowley, Middlesex 1629 - 1648
  • Vicar of Mapledurham 1635 - 1637

He was appointed to the sixth stall in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle in 1631 and held the canonry until 1648.

Notes

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  1. ^ Fasti Wyndesorienses, May 1950. S.L. Ollard. Published by the Dean and Canons of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle