Frank Herbert Coller, CB (26 December 1866 – 8 October 1938) was a British lawyer, judge and civil servant. Born on 26 December 1866 at

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, he was the fourth son of Richard Coller. He attended

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then

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, matriculating in 1884; he studied

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, graduating in 1889 (having placed in the first class in both mods and greats). He was

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of the Oxford Union in 1890. He was

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in 1893 and practised on the South Eastern Circuit before he was appointed

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in 1912."Mr F. H. Coller", ''

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'' (London), 10 October 1938, p. 16. . Amidst the First World War, in January 1917 he was seconded to serve in the Ministry of Food; he was appointed a Companion of the

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in the

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for his work. Having resigned as Chief Justice on 30 June 1919, he was the Ministry of Food's

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from November 1919 until March 1921, when the ministry was dissolved."Ministry of Food Records"
'' Archives Hub''. Retrieved 2 February 2022. From 1921 to 1925, he was Secretary of the Food Department at the

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. In 1926, he published ''A State Trading Adventure'', a history of his work in food control during the war. He died on 8 October 1938.

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1866 births 1938 deaths British barristers Saint Lucian judges British civil servants Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford Companions of the Order of the Bath {{SaintLucia-bio-stub