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| first_name = John (1)
| name = Collinson
| honorific_prefix =
| honorific_suffix = CE, FRGS
| image = File:Collinson,_John_(1).jpg
| birth_date = 1842
| death_date = 1922
| address = 9 Clarendon Gardens, Maida Hill<br />37 Porchester-terrace, Hyde Park, W [1875]<br />13 Palace Gate, W. [1881]<br />90 Cromwell Road, SW [1883]
| occupation =
| elected_ESL =
| elected_ASL = 1866.09.05
| elected_AI = 1866
| elected_APS =
| elected_LAS =
| membership = ASL, AI ordinary fellow
| left = 1885.11 last listed
| clubs =
| societies = Royal Geographical Society
}}
== Notes ==
=== Office Notes ===
=== House Notes ===
proposed 1866.08.01<br />number after name to distinguish from another with same name<br />
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
[From The Playing Card vol. 32, number 2: Thierry Depaulis & Jac Fuchs 'First steps of bridge in the West, Collinson's Biritch']<br />1. The 'Biritch' pamphlet<br />The 'Biritch' pamphlet is a modest four-page booklet of a rather small size: 10 x 15<br />cm. Its first page - which is also its title page - is headed: "BIRITCH, OR RUSSIAN<br />WHIST" below a rectangular engraved ornament. A simple line of tiny Maltese<br />crosses separates this title from the beginning of the text. The only clue that is<br />mentioned on the pamphlet is a small caption, at the bottom of page 1: "[Entered<br />at Stationers Hall.]" We have traced four copies only, but this is not surprising for<br />a document which today would have simply been photocopied. It is a small miracle<br />that the originator of the booklet chose to copyright it. Of these four copies one is<br />alas missing: the copy which was in the former British Museum "Reference Library"<br />(now the British Library), shelfmark 7913.aa.51., was destroyed during the Blitz<br />in 1940 or 1941.Monckton describes it as "a double sheet of buff paper about 6 in. by 4 in. It<br />was published in February, 1886, by Messrs. Blandford Low [sic] & Co., of 34,<br />Lime Street, E.C. —a firm whom the writer has been unable to locate [...] The<br />author, supposing this individual to be identical with the holder of the copyright,<br />was one Mr. John Collinson, whose address is given as 90, Cromwell Road, but<br />who no longer resides there..." ....<br />It has been questioned whether this "unidentified John Collinson" (Parlett, p.<br />225), owner of the copyright, was the real author of the little book. This question<br />was in fact answered in 1894 by... John Collinson himself in a letter to the Editor<br />of The Field magazine, which had just published a review of the earliest bridge<br />manual, The Pocket Guide to Bridge, by "Boaz" (London : Thomas De La Rue, 1894).<br />It seems no-one paid attention to what Collinson had to say. Here are his words as<br />published in The Field, 4 August, 1894, p. 215:<br />"Bridge, Biritch, or Russian Whist — My attention has been called to your notice of<br />Bridge Whist. It may interest your readers if I enclose a copy of the rules of'Biritch'<br />which I published about ten years ago, at the request of some friends. You will notice that<br />the rubber points are forty as against a hundred; four aces in one hand, eigthy as against<br />a hundred; and the biritch or without trump4 value of tricks ten as against twelve. In<br />case of a revoke slam (great or little) cannot be counted. - John Collinson."<br />Not only did Collinson's pamphlet go unnoticed, but his claim of authorship<br />was rapidly forgotten as well.<br />2. Who was John Collinson?<br />John Collinson was born on 7th November 1842, at Usworth (County Durham)6.<br />We have found nothing on his youth and on his education. In 1863 Collinson<br />went to Nicaragua with Commander Bedford Pim of the British Navy to advance<br />the interests of Great Britain in Central America through the construction of a<br />proposed railway across Nicaragua from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific. The<br />expedition gave rise to an official account: Descriptive account of Captain Bedford<br />Pirn's project for an international Atlantic and Pacific junction railway across Nicaragua<br />(London, 1866) to which was added a Report and estimate of cost by John Collinson.<br />On his return to England in 1866, John Collinson published two papers:<br />"Explorations in Central America, accompanied by survey and levels from Lake<br />Nicaragua to the Atlantic Coast", in Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society<br />(Vol. 12,1867, pp. 25-44) and "The Indians of the Mosquito Territory", in Memoirs<br />of the Anthopological Society of London (Vol. 3,1870, pp. 148-56; read 9 Aug., 1867).<br />From the Kelly's Post Office London Directories7 and the City of London Electoral<br />Registers8 we know Collinson had definitely settled in London. From 1867 to 1872 he<br />lived at 9 Clarendon Gardens. In the same years he had an office at 9 Westminster<br />Chambers, Victoria Street where the directories mention him as "civil engineer". At<br />this address, which was also referred to as 9 Victoria Chambers, there were dozens<br />of offices, mainly occupied by civil engineers and railway companies.<br />Thanks to the census records of 18719 we know the man John Collinson and his<br />family. At 9 Clarendon Gardens, we find:<br />"John Collinson, head, male, 28, civil engineer, born at Durham [i.e. Usworth,<br />County Durham]<br />Cecilia, wife, 29, born at Guernsey<br />Edward D., son, 5, scholar, born in Middlesex<br />Ellen C, do [= daughter], 3, born in Middlesex10<br />Marie Symes, servant, 34, cook/domestic, born in Dorsetshire, Stoke Abbott<br />Martha Want, servant, 30, born in Hertfordshire<br />Harriett Lovell, servant, 27, born in Somersetshire, Bath"<br />This establishes that Collinson was fairly well off by 1871, as he already had three<br />servants. In the same years he added to his name "FRGS" (Fellow of the Royal Geographical<br />Society), and "FASL" (Fellow of the Anthropological Society of London). From 1872 John<br />Collinson had offices at 50 Old Broad Street, where he was styled "banker", or "foreign<br />banker". The Collinson family moved to 37 Porchester Terrace in 1872.<br />In the 1870's John Collinson was active in the United States. There he got<br />involved in examining different railway projects. One of these resulted in The<br />Denver Pacific Railway: its present position and future prospects (London : Denver<br />Pacific Railway, W.J. Johnson, printer, 1870), a report published with William<br />Abraham Bell. From around 1870 until 1876, John Collinson represented English<br />and Dutch investors in a huge project in New Mexico that began with the purchase<br />of lands from Lucien Bonaparte Maxwell (1818-1875). "In January 1870, the<br />Maxwells made out a deed to John Collinson, a well-known English investor, and a<br />joint-stock company doing business as the Maxwell Land Grant and Railway<br />Company for 'two million acres more or less' [...]. Collinson owned the majority (...)<br />of the 50,000 shares of the company, with other well-known European and Eastern<br />investors [...]." Maria E. Montoya explains that Collinson's idea was to issue bonds<br />to smaller investors across Europe and the United States, "redeemed at par on July 1,<br />1895, payable in either London in pound sterling or Rotterdam in Dutch guilders." n<br />This is why we know of a report by John Collinson that was published in 1870,<br />in English and in Dutch. Unfortunately the venture did not do well: people who<br />actually inhabited the lands - Jicarilla Indians, Mexican farmers and Anglo miners<br />- protested, rather violently, against this stronghold. "Within months [...] the<br />company faced financial ruin." In 1874 a reorganisation was felt necessary and a<br />Proposal dated 20 Nov. 1874 was "handed to the committee in Holland of Maxwell<br />bondholders"12. In July 1875, the company declared bankruptcy.<br />Some years afterwards Collinson seems to have been involved again in an American<br />project, that of the Atlantic, Mississippi & Ohio Railroad Company. A report by<br />him provoked a reply from its president, General William Mahone. In 1879<br />Collinson was still dealing with American affairs. A Report of Mr. John Collinson<br />and Mr. E. R. Leland, to the Council of Foreign Bond Holders, and the Funding Association<br />of the U.S.A. on the Virginia State Debt was published and sent to investors. On 12<br />May, 1879 an article on the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railway was published<br />in The Times by John Collinson.<br />From all this, we can see John Collinson started his career in the railway<br />construction business abroad. Having certainly been trained as an engineer, he<br />appears to have gradually become a consultant, and eventually to have concentrated<br />on financial activities. Railways were in full boom in the second half of the 19th<br />century. British technology and know-how were particularly sought-after. And<br />many British capitalists were ready to invest in railway companies. It is no surprise<br />to hear John Collinson was offered to investigate railway possibilities in Turkey.<br />The Ottoman Empire was dramatically under-equipped: a few short lines had been<br />built in "Turkey in Europe", but none was seriously available in Asia Minor.<br />Was this the opportunity for incorporating? From 1879 the London trade<br />directories mention Collinson's offices as "John Collinson & Co, (general)<br />merchants, 20 St Helen's Place / Bishopsgate Street, London E.C.". John Collinson<br />is not mentioned in the 1881 census records, possibly because he was abroad<br />at the time. In 1882 his private address changed for 90 Cromwell Road.<br />According to Collinson's own words (in his letter of 9 June, 1906 quoted below),<br />from 1880 to 1884 he "spent a considerable time in Constantinople and Asia<br />Minor". He must have spent much of his time in the Mersin/Adana region where<br />a group of British financiers, led by Sir Thomas Tancred (1840-1910), had planned<br />to set up a railway. No doubt John Collinson was the "engineer on the spot" whom<br />the Times correspondent in Constantinople referred to in an article of 188413. We<br />will see that Collinson did not waste his time in Constantinople, learning a new<br />exciting card game called 'Biritch'.<br />Granted on 8 January, 1883 to an "Ottoman company formed under the name<br />of the Mersina, Tarsus and Adana Railway Company", the concession was secured.<br />In 1884 John Collinson was back to London and in December he could<br />organise a first meeting of the company shareholders under the presidency of the<br />Duke of Sutherland.<br />The Mersin/Adana railway track was finally opened in 1886, exactly when<br />John Collinson was entrusting the firm of Blandford Lowe & Co in London with<br />the task of printing a four-page pamphlet entitled Biritch, or Russian whist. At<br />about the same time, the offices of John Collinson & Co moved to 8 Great<br />Winchester Street. In 1887-8, while John Collinson was chairman of the Mersina,<br />Tarsus and Adana Railway Company, there were difficult tax-refund discussions<br />with the Council of Administration of the Ottoman Public Debt.<br />From 1894 to 1906 we have hardly any news from John Collinson. We know<br />that the Collinson household moved again in 1891, to 21 Ashley Gardens. In 1906<br />the Deutsche Bank took over the Mersina, Tarsus and Adana Railway Company.<br />We know that by 1899 John Collinson had resigned as chairman. But bridge player<br />he still was. William Dalton had started his series on bridge in The Saturday Review<br />in 1905; in May and June 1906 the articles dealt with "The Evolution of Bridge".<br />The 19 May issue did not go unnoticed: a few days later Collinson wrote a reply<br />which was published in the same magazine on 9 June. By then he was living at "21<br />Ashley Gardens, Victoria Street, S.W." He was still travelling much since he writes:<br />"Absence from England prevented me from seeing yours of the 19th until now."<br />According to the London directories, Collinson vacated his house in Ashley<br />Gardens in 1915 or 1916. On 27 January, 1915 "John Collinson of Number 21 Ashley<br />Gardens in the County of London and Number 8 Great Winchester Street in the<br />City of London Esquire" wrote his will14, whose sole beneficiary was Louis Leopold<br />Marks, 8 Great Winchester Street, London. (Thus John Collinson's wife and children<br />seem to have all died before 1915.) This done Collinson moved to the Russell<br />Hotel, in Russell Square, where he lived for a few years, then he chose to go to the<br />Midland Grand Hotel, in St Paneras, Middlesex, where he died on 21st April 1922.<br />John Collinson & Co appears to have survived its founder: in 1923 it was located<br />at 85 London Wall.<br />
== Publications ==
=== External Publications ===
Title of book. Biritch, or Russian Whist<br />Name of Publisher and Place of Publication.Blandford Lowe & Co,<br />34 Lime Street London EC<br />Name and Place of Abode of the John Collinson 90 Cromwell Road<br />Proprietor of the Copyright. London SW<br />Date of First Publication. 9th July 1886<br /><br />Descriptive account of Captain Bedford<br />Pirn's project for an international Atlantic and Pacific junction railway across Nicaragua<br />(London, 1866) to which was added a Report and estimate of cost by John Collinson<br /><br />"Explorations in Central America, accompanied by survey and levels from Lake<br />Nicaragua to the Atlantic Coast", in Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society<br />(Vol. 12,1867, pp. 25-44)<br /><br />[possibly, from The Freemanson, Oct 3. 1885]THE ANALOGY BETWEEN MAGIC , ALCHEMY , AND OLD ROSICRUCIANISM. AN ESSAY READ BEFORE THE ROSICRUCIAN SOCIETY OF ENGLAND , BY JOHN COLLINSON , FRA. Ros. CR.
=== House Publications ===
The Indians of the Mosquito Territory Memoirs of the Anthopological Society of London (Vol. 3,1870, pp. 148-56; read 9 Aug., 1867
== Related Material Details ==
=== RAI Material ===
=== Other Material ===
| first_name = John (1)
| name = Collinson
| honorific_prefix =
| honorific_suffix = CE, FRGS
| image = File:Collinson,_John_(1).jpg
| birth_date = 1842
| death_date = 1922
| address = 9 Clarendon Gardens, Maida Hill<br />37 Porchester-terrace, Hyde Park, W [1875]<br />13 Palace Gate, W. [1881]<br />90 Cromwell Road, SW [1883]
| occupation =
| elected_ESL =
| elected_ASL = 1866.09.05
| elected_AI = 1866
| elected_APS =
| elected_LAS =
| membership = ASL, AI ordinary fellow
| left = 1885.11 last listed
| clubs =
| societies = Royal Geographical Society
}}
== Notes ==
=== Office Notes ===
=== House Notes ===
proposed 1866.08.01<br />number after name to distinguish from another with same name<br />
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
[From The Playing Card vol. 32, number 2: Thierry Depaulis & Jac Fuchs 'First steps of bridge in the West, Collinson's Biritch']<br />1. The 'Biritch' pamphlet<br />The 'Biritch' pamphlet is a modest four-page booklet of a rather small size: 10 x 15<br />cm. Its first page - which is also its title page - is headed: "BIRITCH, OR RUSSIAN<br />WHIST" below a rectangular engraved ornament. A simple line of tiny Maltese<br />crosses separates this title from the beginning of the text. The only clue that is<br />mentioned on the pamphlet is a small caption, at the bottom of page 1: "[Entered<br />at Stationers Hall.]" We have traced four copies only, but this is not surprising for<br />a document which today would have simply been photocopied. It is a small miracle<br />that the originator of the booklet chose to copyright it. Of these four copies one is<br />alas missing: the copy which was in the former British Museum "Reference Library"<br />(now the British Library), shelfmark 7913.aa.51., was destroyed during the Blitz<br />in 1940 or 1941.Monckton describes it as "a double sheet of buff paper about 6 in. by 4 in. It<br />was published in February, 1886, by Messrs. Blandford Low [sic] & Co., of 34,<br />Lime Street, E.C. —a firm whom the writer has been unable to locate [...] The<br />author, supposing this individual to be identical with the holder of the copyright,<br />was one Mr. John Collinson, whose address is given as 90, Cromwell Road, but<br />who no longer resides there..." ....<br />It has been questioned whether this "unidentified John Collinson" (Parlett, p.<br />225), owner of the copyright, was the real author of the little book. This question<br />was in fact answered in 1894 by... John Collinson himself in a letter to the Editor<br />of The Field magazine, which had just published a review of the earliest bridge<br />manual, The Pocket Guide to Bridge, by "Boaz" (London : Thomas De La Rue, 1894).<br />It seems no-one paid attention to what Collinson had to say. Here are his words as<br />published in The Field, 4 August, 1894, p. 215:<br />"Bridge, Biritch, or Russian Whist — My attention has been called to your notice of<br />Bridge Whist. It may interest your readers if I enclose a copy of the rules of'Biritch'<br />which I published about ten years ago, at the request of some friends. You will notice that<br />the rubber points are forty as against a hundred; four aces in one hand, eigthy as against<br />a hundred; and the biritch or without trump4 value of tricks ten as against twelve. In<br />case of a revoke slam (great or little) cannot be counted. - John Collinson."<br />Not only did Collinson's pamphlet go unnoticed, but his claim of authorship<br />was rapidly forgotten as well.<br />2. Who was John Collinson?<br />John Collinson was born on 7th November 1842, at Usworth (County Durham)6.<br />We have found nothing on his youth and on his education. In 1863 Collinson<br />went to Nicaragua with Commander Bedford Pim of the British Navy to advance<br />the interests of Great Britain in Central America through the construction of a<br />proposed railway across Nicaragua from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific. The<br />expedition gave rise to an official account: Descriptive account of Captain Bedford<br />Pirn's project for an international Atlantic and Pacific junction railway across Nicaragua<br />(London, 1866) to which was added a Report and estimate of cost by John Collinson.<br />On his return to England in 1866, John Collinson published two papers:<br />"Explorations in Central America, accompanied by survey and levels from Lake<br />Nicaragua to the Atlantic Coast", in Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society<br />(Vol. 12,1867, pp. 25-44) and "The Indians of the Mosquito Territory", in Memoirs<br />of the Anthopological Society of London (Vol. 3,1870, pp. 148-56; read 9 Aug., 1867).<br />From the Kelly's Post Office London Directories7 and the City of London Electoral<br />Registers8 we know Collinson had definitely settled in London. From 1867 to 1872 he<br />lived at 9 Clarendon Gardens. In the same years he had an office at 9 Westminster<br />Chambers, Victoria Street where the directories mention him as "civil engineer". At<br />this address, which was also referred to as 9 Victoria Chambers, there were dozens<br />of offices, mainly occupied by civil engineers and railway companies.<br />Thanks to the census records of 18719 we know the man John Collinson and his<br />family. At 9 Clarendon Gardens, we find:<br />"John Collinson, head, male, 28, civil engineer, born at Durham [i.e. Usworth,<br />County Durham]<br />Cecilia, wife, 29, born at Guernsey<br />Edward D., son, 5, scholar, born in Middlesex<br />Ellen C, do [= daughter], 3, born in Middlesex10<br />Marie Symes, servant, 34, cook/domestic, born in Dorsetshire, Stoke Abbott<br />Martha Want, servant, 30, born in Hertfordshire<br />Harriett Lovell, servant, 27, born in Somersetshire, Bath"<br />This establishes that Collinson was fairly well off by 1871, as he already had three<br />servants. In the same years he added to his name "FRGS" (Fellow of the Royal Geographical<br />Society), and "FASL" (Fellow of the Anthropological Society of London). From 1872 John<br />Collinson had offices at 50 Old Broad Street, where he was styled "banker", or "foreign<br />banker". The Collinson family moved to 37 Porchester Terrace in 1872.<br />In the 1870's John Collinson was active in the United States. There he got<br />involved in examining different railway projects. One of these resulted in The<br />Denver Pacific Railway: its present position and future prospects (London : Denver<br />Pacific Railway, W.J. Johnson, printer, 1870), a report published with William<br />Abraham Bell. From around 1870 until 1876, John Collinson represented English<br />and Dutch investors in a huge project in New Mexico that began with the purchase<br />of lands from Lucien Bonaparte Maxwell (1818-1875). "In January 1870, the<br />Maxwells made out a deed to John Collinson, a well-known English investor, and a<br />joint-stock company doing business as the Maxwell Land Grant and Railway<br />Company for 'two million acres more or less' [...]. Collinson owned the majority (...)<br />of the 50,000 shares of the company, with other well-known European and Eastern<br />investors [...]." Maria E. Montoya explains that Collinson's idea was to issue bonds<br />to smaller investors across Europe and the United States, "redeemed at par on July 1,<br />1895, payable in either London in pound sterling or Rotterdam in Dutch guilders." n<br />This is why we know of a report by John Collinson that was published in 1870,<br />in English and in Dutch. Unfortunately the venture did not do well: people who<br />actually inhabited the lands - Jicarilla Indians, Mexican farmers and Anglo miners<br />- protested, rather violently, against this stronghold. "Within months [...] the<br />company faced financial ruin." In 1874 a reorganisation was felt necessary and a<br />Proposal dated 20 Nov. 1874 was "handed to the committee in Holland of Maxwell<br />bondholders"12. In July 1875, the company declared bankruptcy.<br />Some years afterwards Collinson seems to have been involved again in an American<br />project, that of the Atlantic, Mississippi & Ohio Railroad Company. A report by<br />him provoked a reply from its president, General William Mahone. In 1879<br />Collinson was still dealing with American affairs. A Report of Mr. John Collinson<br />and Mr. E. R. Leland, to the Council of Foreign Bond Holders, and the Funding Association<br />of the U.S.A. on the Virginia State Debt was published and sent to investors. On 12<br />May, 1879 an article on the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railway was published<br />in The Times by John Collinson.<br />From all this, we can see John Collinson started his career in the railway<br />construction business abroad. Having certainly been trained as an engineer, he<br />appears to have gradually become a consultant, and eventually to have concentrated<br />on financial activities. Railways were in full boom in the second half of the 19th<br />century. British technology and know-how were particularly sought-after. And<br />many British capitalists were ready to invest in railway companies. It is no surprise<br />to hear John Collinson was offered to investigate railway possibilities in Turkey.<br />The Ottoman Empire was dramatically under-equipped: a few short lines had been<br />built in "Turkey in Europe", but none was seriously available in Asia Minor.<br />Was this the opportunity for incorporating? From 1879 the London trade<br />directories mention Collinson's offices as "John Collinson & Co, (general)<br />merchants, 20 St Helen's Place / Bishopsgate Street, London E.C.". John Collinson<br />is not mentioned in the 1881 census records, possibly because he was abroad<br />at the time. In 1882 his private address changed for 90 Cromwell Road.<br />According to Collinson's own words (in his letter of 9 June, 1906 quoted below),<br />from 1880 to 1884 he "spent a considerable time in Constantinople and Asia<br />Minor". He must have spent much of his time in the Mersin/Adana region where<br />a group of British financiers, led by Sir Thomas Tancred (1840-1910), had planned<br />to set up a railway. No doubt John Collinson was the "engineer on the spot" whom<br />the Times correspondent in Constantinople referred to in an article of 188413. We<br />will see that Collinson did not waste his time in Constantinople, learning a new<br />exciting card game called 'Biritch'.<br />Granted on 8 January, 1883 to an "Ottoman company formed under the name<br />of the Mersina, Tarsus and Adana Railway Company", the concession was secured.<br />In 1884 John Collinson was back to London and in December he could<br />organise a first meeting of the company shareholders under the presidency of the<br />Duke of Sutherland.<br />The Mersin/Adana railway track was finally opened in 1886, exactly when<br />John Collinson was entrusting the firm of Blandford Lowe & Co in London with<br />the task of printing a four-page pamphlet entitled Biritch, or Russian whist. At<br />about the same time, the offices of John Collinson & Co moved to 8 Great<br />Winchester Street. In 1887-8, while John Collinson was chairman of the Mersina,<br />Tarsus and Adana Railway Company, there were difficult tax-refund discussions<br />with the Council of Administration of the Ottoman Public Debt.<br />From 1894 to 1906 we have hardly any news from John Collinson. We know<br />that the Collinson household moved again in 1891, to 21 Ashley Gardens. In 1906<br />the Deutsche Bank took over the Mersina, Tarsus and Adana Railway Company.<br />We know that by 1899 John Collinson had resigned as chairman. But bridge player<br />he still was. William Dalton had started his series on bridge in The Saturday Review<br />in 1905; in May and June 1906 the articles dealt with "The Evolution of Bridge".<br />The 19 May issue did not go unnoticed: a few days later Collinson wrote a reply<br />which was published in the same magazine on 9 June. By then he was living at "21<br />Ashley Gardens, Victoria Street, S.W." He was still travelling much since he writes:<br />"Absence from England prevented me from seeing yours of the 19th until now."<br />According to the London directories, Collinson vacated his house in Ashley<br />Gardens in 1915 or 1916. On 27 January, 1915 "John Collinson of Number 21 Ashley<br />Gardens in the County of London and Number 8 Great Winchester Street in the<br />City of London Esquire" wrote his will14, whose sole beneficiary was Louis Leopold<br />Marks, 8 Great Winchester Street, London. (Thus John Collinson's wife and children<br />seem to have all died before 1915.) This done Collinson moved to the Russell<br />Hotel, in Russell Square, where he lived for a few years, then he chose to go to the<br />Midland Grand Hotel, in St Paneras, Middlesex, where he died on 21st April 1922.<br />John Collinson & Co appears to have survived its founder: in 1923 it was located<br />at 85 London Wall.<br />
== Publications ==
=== External Publications ===
Title of book. Biritch, or Russian Whist<br />Name of Publisher and Place of Publication.Blandford Lowe & Co,<br />34 Lime Street London EC<br />Name and Place of Abode of the John Collinson 90 Cromwell Road<br />Proprietor of the Copyright. London SW<br />Date of First Publication. 9th July 1886<br /><br />Descriptive account of Captain Bedford<br />Pirn's project for an international Atlantic and Pacific junction railway across Nicaragua<br />(London, 1866) to which was added a Report and estimate of cost by John Collinson<br /><br />"Explorations in Central America, accompanied by survey and levels from Lake<br />Nicaragua to the Atlantic Coast", in Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society<br />(Vol. 12,1867, pp. 25-44)<br /><br />[possibly, from The Freemanson, Oct 3. 1885]THE ANALOGY BETWEEN MAGIC , ALCHEMY , AND OLD ROSICRUCIANISM. AN ESSAY READ BEFORE THE ROSICRUCIAN SOCIETY OF ENGLAND , BY JOHN COLLINSON , FRA. Ros. CR.
=== House Publications ===
The Indians of the Mosquito Territory Memoirs of the Anthopological Society of London (Vol. 3,1870, pp. 148-56; read 9 Aug., 1867
== Related Material Details ==
=== RAI Material ===
=== Other Material ===