Collyer, Robert
clergyman, author, was born Dec. 8, 1823, in England. He is a unitarian clergyman of New York and one of the leading men among the clergy of his faith. He was born in Yorkshire, and learned the blacksmith's trade, which he still followed after coming to America in 1849. He was then a Wesleyan local preacher, but his views changing he became a unitarian, and in 1860 founded Unity church in Chicago, over which he remained pastor until he went to New York in 1879. His influence, both within and without the unitarian body, has been very great. He is the author of The Life that Now Is; Nature and Life; A Man in Earnest; The Simple Truth, a Home Book; Lectures to Young Men and Women; History of Ilkley, in Yorkshire.