Daniel Collins STP (died 29 March 1648) was a
Canon of Windsor
The Dean and Canons of Windsor are the ecclesiastical body of St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle.
Foundation
The college of canons was established in 1348 by letters patent of King Edward III. It was formally constituted on the feast of S ...
from 1631 to 1648
[''Fasti Wyndesorienses'', May 1950. S.L. Ollard. Published by the Dean and Canons of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle]
Career
He was educated at
Eton College
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and
King's College, Cambridge
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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
St George's Chapel, formally titled The King's Free Chapel of the College of St George, Windsor Castle, at Windsor Castle in England is a castle chapel built in the late-medieval Perpendicular Gothic style. It is a Royal peculiar, Royal Peculia ...
in 1631 and held the canonry until 1648.
Notes
1648 deaths
Canons of Windsor
Alumni of King's College, Cambridge
People educated at Eton College
Year of birth unknown
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