which she defended herself. A century later, her garters were sold by auction at Sotheby's. Family Lottie had three daughters, Lottie Lucia, José and Cleopatra. José Collins went on to be a musical comedy star. In 1902 she married her second husband, the composer-producer James W. Tate. Lottie Lucia (or Lucia Lottie) Collins, a mezzo soprano, appeared in vaudeville on the Australian Tivoli circuit, March–August 1911. She was at the time married to one J. A. R. Cargill; they divorced in 1912. She returned to Australia in 1921 to play "principal boy" pantomime roles. She had undergone a form of marriage with one John Sydney Phillips in London in October 1917, but discovered when she arrived in Sydney that he already had a wife and was penniless. Death In 1898 she apparently attempted suicide by cutting her wrists and neck with a penknife, but her wounds were minor and she was discharged from hospital the same day. She died on 1 May 1910 at St Pancras of heart disease and is buried at St Pancras and Islington Cemetery, East Finchley, London. References External links Music Hall and Variety Artistes Burial Places at www.arthurlloyd.co.uk Lottie Collins; Gabriel Elleray Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay melody Lottie Collins University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections(American Vaudeville Museum Archive) 1865 births 1910 deaths Music hall performers Vaudeville performers People from St Pancras, London Burials at St Pancras and Islington Cemetery