View entry
Name: COLLINSON, Edward de Lisle
Birth Date: 18 June 1865 Hornsey, Middlesex
Death Date: 8 Apr 1903 Pimlico, London
Nationality: British
First Date: 1896
Last Date: 1903
Profession: Appt. 1st Asst. and Legal Vice-Consul Uganda Protectorate 2/7/1896; Mengo late 1896; went on leave in 1901
Area: Mengo
Children: John
Book Reference: North
School: Winchester, New Coll. Oxford
General Information:
North - Resigned, ill, 6-3-1901, end of appt. 25-10-1901; ' …….. his health is not good due to his intemperate use of alcohol' (H.H. Johnston, FO 2)
North - Formerly in Lagos; 'He is an able man but a hopeless drunkard and had to be got rid of' (FO 2)
Trained at Inner Temple
Nat Probate Calendar probate to John Collinson
Oxford Men and Their Colleges - one son