David Collins (lieutenant governor), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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British colonial administrator
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Place of Birth: London
About David Collins (lieutenant governor)
- Colonel David Collins (3 March 1756 – 24 March 1810) was a British administrator of Britain's first Australian colonies. In the first European settlement of Australia in 1788, Collins was the founding Lieutenant Governor of the Colony of New South Wales.
- In 1803 he led the expedition to found the first, short-lived, British settlement in what was later to become the Colony of Victoria.
- In 1804, Collins became the founding Lieutenant Governor of the Colony of Van Diemens Land, which in 1901 became the state of Tasmania.
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