Frank Herbert Coller, CB (26 December 1866 – 8 October 1938) was a British lawyer, judge and civil servant.
Born on 26 December 1866 at King's Lynn, he was the fourth son of Richard Coller. He attended Westminster School then Christ Church, Oxford, matriculating in 1884; he studied classics, graduating in 1889 (having placed in the first class in both mods and greats). He was president of the Oxford Union in 1890.[1] He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1893 and practised on the South Eastern Circuit before he was appointed Chief Justice of St Lucia in 1912.[2]
Amidst the First World War, in January 1917 he was seconded to serve in the Ministry of Food;[2][3] he was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1919 New Year Honours for his work.[4] Having resigned as Chief Justice on 30 June 1919,[5] he was the Ministry of Food's Permanent Secretary from November 1919 until March 1921,[6] when the ministry was dissolved.[7] From 1921 to 1925, he was Secretary of the Food Department at the Board of Trade. In 1926, he published A State Trading Adventure, a history of his work in food control during the war. He died on 8 October 1938.[2]
References
edit- ^ Joseph Foster, Oxford Men, 1880–1892 (Oxford: James Parker and Co., 1893), p. 125.
- ^ a b c "Mr F. H. Coller", The Times (London), 10 October 1938, p. 16. Gale CS269169482.
- ^ Sir William H. Mercer, A. E. Collins and A. J. Harding, The Colonial Office List, 62nd ed. (London: Waterlow and Sons, 1923), p. 586.
- ^ The Edinburgh Gazette, 2 January 1919 (issue 13376), p. 53.
- ^ Saint Lucia Blue Book, 1st April to 31st December 1919 (Castries: Government Printer to the Government of St Lucia, 1921), p. N17.
- ^ "Food Supply in Time of War: Papers of Mr. F. H. Coller, C.B.", The National Archives. Retrieved 2 February 2022.
- ^ "Ministry of Food Records", Archives Hub. Retrieved 2 February 2022.
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