Family and Education

1st s. of Benjamin Collyer. m. Catherine, da. of Jeremiah Powell of Edenhope, Salop,1 1da.

Offices Held

Biography

Collyer, a merchant and brother-in-law of Robert Knight, the cashier of the South Sea Company, bought the manor of Ruckholts in 1720.2 Returned for Grimsby in 1722, he did not stand again. He died 19 Nov. 1746.

Ref Volumes: 1715-1754

Author: Paula Watson

Notes

• 1. W. Cooper, Wootton Wawen, 115.
• 2. Morant, Essex, i. 25.