COLVIN, SIR SIDNEY, an English critic; born in Norwood, England, June 18, 1845. He became professor of fine arts at Cambridge in 1873. He was keeper of prints and drawings, British Museum (1884-1912). He wrote “Life of Landor” (1881); “Keats” (1887); “Early History of English Engraving” (1905); and edited Edinburgh edition of Stevenson's works; “John Keats, His Life and Poetry” (1917). He was knighted in 1911.