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Collins (JOHN CHURTON an English)

JOHN CHURTON, an English educator and writer, born in 1848. He graduated from Balliol College, Ox- COLLINS ford, in 1872. For many years he con tributed book reviews and criticisms to the English reviews. In 1904 he was appointed professor of English literature and wrote "Sir Joshua Reynolds as a at the University of Birmingham. He Portrait Painter" (1874); "Study of edited many editions of English classics English Literature" (1891); "Essays and Studies" (1895); "Essays in Poetry and Criticism" (1905); and "Rousseau His melancholy temperament and poetic musings marked him as a boy, and at