7 JANUARY 1911, Page 11

We regret to have to record the death of Lord

Collins, who resigned his Lordship of Appeal in October. Lord Coffins, who graduated with high classical honours at both Dublin and Cambridge, was called to the Bar in 1867, and raised to the Bench in 1891 on the resignation of Sir James Stephen. He was made a Lord Justice in 1897, Master of the Rolls in 1901, and a Lord of Appeal with a life peerage in 1907. In 1892 he was President of the Railway Commission, and in 1904 presided over the Committee of Inquiry into the Beck case.