COLLETT, Alfred Master
Alfred Master Collett was born at Melcombe Regis, Dorset at the end of 1858 and baptised at Weymouth on 9 February 1859, only child of Daniel Collett (1828-17 April 1889), an engineer and iron founder, and his first wife Elizabeth [Lizzie] Pollard née Canwell (1829-July 1875), who married at Hackney, London in 1857. In 1861, Alfred was a 2-year-old living, at 7 Mary's Street, Radipole near Melcombe Regis, with his parents, 32-year-old Daniel and 30-year-old Lizzie and ten years later their address was 7 Grosvenor Road, Radipole. Alfred's mother died at Radipole in July 1875 when his father remarried in 1877, Mary Sherwood Ireland (1937-1921). Alfred matriculated at Keeble College, Oxford on 15 October 1877, aged 18, graduating B.A. in 1880, proceeding M.A. 1884, ordained deacon in 1882 and priest at Norwich the following year and was curate of St Mary Stoke, Ipswich from 1882. A member of the Ipswich Fine Art Club 1884-1885, exhibiting in 1883 from Mill Cottage, Belstead Road, Ipswich, four monochromes, ‘Witney Church, Oxon’, ‘Manor House, Radipole, near Weymouth’, ‘Wimbourne Minster, Dorset’ and ‘Magdalen Bridge, Oxford', in 1884 from Gipping House, Burrell Road, Ipswich a monochrome and in 1885 from St Mary Stoke, Ipswich, two monochromes ‘Sketch at Sproughton’ and ‘Bramford’. In 1901, unmarried, living in retirement with his widowed stepmother, at 5 Selkirk Parade, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Alfred Master Collett died at Cheltenham Infirmary on 4 May 1937, aged 79, he was unmarried.