Marcus Evelyn Collins (1861-1944) was one of the nine sons and two daughters of London architect and City of London District Surveyor Hyman Henry Collins (1833-1905).
Noted buildings by H. H. Collins included a number of synagogues, such as the St John's Wood United Synagogue,[1] the Chatham Memorial Synagogue,[2] and the Park Row Synagogue, Bristol.[3] H. H. Collins was also a staunch advocate of domestic sanitation for all classes of housing[4][5][6] - "He was instrumental in the framing of the first London Building Act and was one of the pioneers of improvements in sanitation of towns."[7]
Marcus Collins followed his father into architectural practice, later working on a number of noted London buildings including "London's Wonder Works", the Arcadia Cigarette Factory in Hampstead where, from the late 1920s to the late 1950s, Black Cat and Craven "A" cigarettes were made.
In 1889, Marcus Collins married Florette Davis, daughter of London portrait photographer Hyman Davis:[11] Marcus Collins was thus brother-in-law of theatre critic and librettist "Owen Hall", novelist "Frank Danby", and journalist "Mrs Aria".[12]
↑ Collins, H. H., On the Ill-Construction and Want of Sanitary Provisions which Exist in the Dwellings of the Upper and Middle Classes, and Suggestions for Rectifying the Same: Being a Paper Read at Brighton, before the Health Section of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, at the Annual Congress, October 1875
↑ Collins, H. H., Sanitation as an Increment of Value in House Property: Read at the Ordinary General Meeting of the Institute of Surveyors, 7 March 1881
↑ Collins, H. H., "The House that Jack Built", Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health, April 1884 No. 5 pp235-236
↑ Collins, Horace, My Best Riches, Eyre & Spottiswoode 1941 p12
↑ Collins, Horace, My Best Riches, Eyre & Spottiswoode 1941 pp98-169,220
↑ Collins, Horace, My Best Riches, Eyre & Spottiswoode 1941 p11
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