William J. Collins [SEP] place of death
William J. Collins
William J. Collins (1896–1981) was a 20th-century Catholic priest who served as the ninth president of St. Ambrose College in Davenport, Iowa from 1956 to 1963.
Biography.
He was born and raised in Millersburg,Iowa and was educated at St. Ambrose College. He was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Davenport at Sacred Heart Cathedral in 1929.
He was referred to as "Sailor Bill" since he had served in the Navy. He was assigned to the faculty of St.
Crops and Live Stock", William Collins, Sons & Co., Ltd., London and Glasgow (c.1900).
On Wrightson's death at Marylebone in London in 1916 aged 76 the principal of the Royal Agricultural College, J. R. Ainsworth-Davis, wrote that Wrightson "... would always occupy an honoured place in the history of British agriculture, especially as regards the educational developments."
His obituary in "Nature" stated:
THE death of Prof. John Wrightson, on November 30, at seventy-