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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Auckland Provincial District]

The Rev. Archibald Henry Collins

The Rev. Archibald Henry Collins, Minister of the Ponsonby Baptist Church, was born in Worcester, England, in 1853, and educated in his native town. He studied for the ministry, and went to London, where he completed his college course. Then he settled at Milton, Oxfordshire, where he ministered for three years. At the request of the late Rev. C. H. Spurgeon he went to Birmingham, where for over twelve years he held the charge of the Selly Park Baptist Church. Owing to failing health, Mr. Collins decided to come to New Zealand, and a few weeks prior to his departure he received by cable a call to the Ponsonby Baptist Church, which he accepted. Mr. Collins was for seven years secretary to the Baptist Union, but resigned the office in November, 1900, when he was appointed president. He has been chairman of the Conciliation Board for the Northern Industrial District for the past four years, and is also secretary of the Evangelical Christian Church Council. In 1881 he married a daughter of Mr. John Fowler Maddox, J.P., of Shipton-under-Wychwood, Oxfordshire, and has a family of four children.