Robert Martin Collins [SEP] date of death
Robert Martin Collins
Robert Martin Collins (17 December 1843 – 18 August 1913) was an explorer, grazier, member of both the Queensland Legislative Council and the Queensland Legislative Assembly.
Early life.
Collins was born in December 1843 at Sydney, New South Wales, to John Collins and his wife Anne (née Martin). A year after he was born, his family moved to the Logan district of Queensland to take shares in "Mundoolun", a property that a friend of his father had taken up
has been claimed as 10 Aug 1874, however the date of 16 Sep 1866 is evidenced by his official birth record. He was educated to elementary level at Bourke, where his family moved after his father's alleged death when Stuart-Robertson was 4 years old. Despite the rumour that Robert senior had died during the 1870s in Queensland, Robert senior died on 3 July 1899 at George Street Asylum, Parramatta, New South Wales.
Stuart-Robertson undertook a number of unsuccessful retail businesses in Bourke and Cobar. During