356:, who could be described accurately as gentle but tough. His was essentially a Christian outlook that stood him in particularly good stead in times of difficulty. In short, he was a born leader, though he was by no means instrusive." He also describes Collar as "a very entertaining raconteur....In general conversation...there was rarely a dull moment and he had a great fund of quotations, particularly from W. S. Gilbert." Also, "he was an excellent speaker with an enviable gift of spontaneity." His colleagues, furthermore, credited Collar with helping them to write better English.
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Bristol, he served as Dean of the
Engineering Faculty from 1954 to 1957, and in 1968–69 acted as Vice-Chancellor. Bishop describes him as a "remarkably successful" administrator who had a "positive love of productive committee work" and an "urbane and thoroughly informed approach" to such work. He was made an honorary Doctorate of Laws in 1969 and retired in 1973, becoming Professor Emeritus.
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Council from 1969 to 1979, was on the
Council of the Royal Society from 1971 to 1973, and was on the Academic Advisory Council of Cranfield Institute of Technology from 1970 to 1975. He was a Governor of United Bristol Hospital from 1968 to 1974 and a member of the Southwest Regional Hospital Board
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Aeronautical Engineering at Bristol University. While at
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in an account of Collar's life, "that Collar's period at N.P.L. Is best remembered." Collar worked on these challenges in collaboration with Robert
Alexander Frazer and William Jolly Duncan. "The collaboration between these three", according to Bishop, "became so close that eventually separate
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Hodgkin Prize in 1979. He was made a
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