Major General Thomas Bernard Collinson was an English military engineer of the Corps of Royal Engineers who carried out the earliest British surveys of Hong Kong, and planned roads and other early military and civil engineering works in New Zealand. Immediately prior to retirement, he was architect to the Scottish Prison Commission.
Thomas Bernard Collinson after Theodore Blake Wirgman, 1888 National Portrait Gallery, London
Lei Yue Mun Park, place of the sole remaining stone trig station of T B Collinson's 1843–1845 survey
Sketch of Victoria Harbour during his time in Hong Kong, published in 1845
Admiral Sir Richard Collinson was an English naval officer and explorer of the Northwest Passage.
Collinson in 1877
HMS Plover commanded by Collinson from 1842 to 1846 during his survey of the coast of China