a scholar of the 17th century, was the son of Baldwin Collins, who was born at. Coventry, a pious preacher, very bountiful to the poor, and whom queen Elizabeth constantly called father Collins. Samuel was born and educated at Eton; became fellow of King's College, Cambridge; afterwards provost and. regius professor there, being a man of admirable wit and memory, and the most fluent Latinist of the age. He retained his professorship throughout his life read his lectures twice a week for forty years, declined the bishopric, of Bristol, and died in 1651. See Fuller, Worthies of England (ed. Nuttall), 1:209.