He observed the solar eclipse of 08 April 1921 from Ipswich, where he took temperature measurements and "actinometric observations" (the time taken to darken a light-sensitive paper to a standard tint). He also served with distinction on various local legal administrative panels and charities. He rose to become senior partner in the Ipswich and Felixstowe practice nowadays known as Blocks Solicitors. On leaving school and returning to his home at 64 Westerfield Road, Ipswich, he served articles in a local legal practice, qualifying as a solicitor in 1927. (The aim of the Society was to popularise and undertake astronomical observing.) On 04 August 1921, he became a founder member of the Ipswich Section of the Chaldaean Society, remaining a member until the Section closed in 1924. His observations are first mentioned in the archives of the BAA in a report of an Exhibition Meeting of the Association on 30 March 1921 at which his notebooks were on display along with those of fellow pupils at Bootham School. He was an active member of the BAA throughout his life, contributing observations to the Meteor, Aurora, Comet, Lunar, Variable Star, Mars and Jupiter Sections. In October 1920, he was proposed for membership of the BAA by two notable Suffolk astronomers, J P M Prentice and A G Cook and, on 24 November 1920, he was elected a member of the Association. By the time he observed the nova it had brightened from an initial magnitude 5.8 to a spectacular -1.1, and he went on to record the evolution of its colour and magnitude over a period of months. In June 1918, he recorded observations of Nova V603 Aquilae just three days after its discovery.
ASTRONOMICAL PHENOMENA MARCH 1921 FULL
Indeed, his carefully kept astronomical notebooks date back to 1914, when he made full use of small refractors at Ackworth School. (Both were Quaker establishments.) By the age of 10, he had developed a fledgling interest in astronomy which grew into a life-long passion. Together with his brothers Hugh and Norman, he was educated first at Ackworth School in Pontefract, Yorkshire, and then at Bootham School in York. Edward Howard Collinson was born in Ipswich on 15 November 1903.
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