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John Collins (died 1597)

(d.1597) of Hythe and Warehorne, Kent

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ54556855 ↗
Source-derived summary

John Collins (died 1597), of Hythe and Warehorne, Kent, was an English Member of Parliament (MP).

He was a Member of the Parliament of England for Hythe in 1589 and 1593.

Editorial summary

“John Collins (died 1597)” enters the record as (d.1597) of Hythe and Warehorne, Kent. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what John, Collins and died can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1597, 1589, 1593—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around John, Collins and died.
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“John Collins (died 1597)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, John, Collins and died provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q54556855. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1597, 1589 and 1593.

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This entry incorporates text from “John Collins (died 1597)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.