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Colonel David Collins (3 March 1756 – 24 March 1810) was a British Irish administrator of Britain's first Australian colonies. In the first European settlement of Australia in 1788, Collins was the founding Lieutenant Governor of the Colony of New South Wales. In 1803, he led the expedition to found the first, but short-lived, British settlement in what was later to separate from New South Wales to become the Colony of Victoria. In 1804, Collins became the founding Lieutenant Governor of the Colony of Van Diemens Land, which in 1901 became the state of Tasmania in the Commonwealth of Australia. ==Early life and military career== Collins was born in London, the third child of Major-General Arthur Tooker Collins (1718-1793), of the Royal Marines - the son of Arthur Collins (antiquarian) - by his wife Henrietta Caroline Fraser, daughter of George Fraser of Park and Cuba Court (see entry under 'Architecture, buildings and structures' of Banagher), High Sheriff of King's County. ''A Compendium of Irish Biography'' (1878), states that he was born at the home of his maternal grandparents in County Offaly, then known as King's County.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Colonel David Collins )〕 Collins went to Exeter Grammar School before joining the Royal Marines as an Ensign at the age of 14. He was promoted second lieutenant on 20 February 1771. He was serving aboard HMS ''Southampton'' when Queen Matilda of Denmark was dramatically rescued. Collins went to North America early in 1775, and fought at the Battle of Bunker Hill, where the British suffered heavy casualties, but held the heights of Charlestown. He was promoted to first lieutenant the following week. By November 1776, he was stationed at Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he met and then married Mary (Maria Stuart) Proctor, the daughter of Captain Charles Proctor, on 13 June 1777. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David Collins (lieutenant governor)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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