Lieutenant General Sir Edwin Henry Hayter Collen GCIE Central Bank was a British Army officer in India, who served in the Council of the Viceroy of India.
Background
Collen was born in 1843, the son of Henry Collen, a miniature portrait painter and early photographer to the court. He married, in 1873, Blanche Rigby, daughter of Charles Rigby, Justice of the Peace, and they had three sons and a daughter.
Career
Collen joined the Royal Artillery in 1863, and served in Abyssinia in 1868 and later in Afghanistan and Sudan. After passing through Staff college in 1871-1872, he joined the Indian Staff Corps. He was promoted to Major-General on 18 January 1900.
Membership
As and administrator in India, he served as Secretary in the Military Department, and was a Military Member of the Council of the Viceroy of India from December 1895 until he retired in April 1901.