Edward Foyle Collingwood was born on 17 January 1900 at Lilburn Tower, near Wooler, Northumberland, and died suddenly of a heart attack at Lilburn Tower on 25 October 1970. He came of a very old Northumberland family whose roots go back before 1600 and branches of it spread all over the country, but what is of much greater significance from the scientific point of view is that he was descended from John, the third brother of Admiral Lord Collingwood of Caldbourne and Hethpool, the two older brothers dying without issue. John’s only son, Edward John, bought Lilburn Tower in 1842 from the trustees of H. J. W. Collingwood of Cornhill, and was succeeded one after another by his three sons, Edward John, a bachelor who died in 1903, Arthur Burdett who died without issue in 1927, and Colonel Cuthbert George who had lived at Glanton Pyke and moved to Lilburn Tower in 1928. He immediately handed over the Lilburn Estates to his eldest son, Edward Foyle, the subject of this notice, who was in fact only three generations removed from the Admiral. Edward Foyle Collingwood’s mother Dorothy, still living at the time of writing, is the daughter of the Rev. William Fawcett of Somerford Keynes, Gloucestershire, and the name Foyle recalls her grandmother who was coheiress with her sister of the Somerford Keynes estate, and his mother was always a strong influence in the family. Three other sons were born in quick succession so that they formed a close-knit family and were able to do together all the usual country sports and pastimes of boys and did them well, especially shooting and fishing. Edward went to Osborne in 1913, Dartmouth in 1914, and a year later joined the Navy as a midshipman in H.M.S.
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(by special arrangement). Two of his brothers survive him, Group Captain C. J. Collingwood who followed him through Osborne and Dartmouth just one year behind, and the youngest, Lieutenant-General Sir George Collingwood.
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