First Collector

First Collector

Background

First Collector is a charity worker in London, England.

During the events of A Christmas Carol (1951) played by Noel Howlett

First Collector and Second Collector asks Ebenezer Scrooge if he would like to donate some money to the poor fund. Scrooge sarcastically asks if there are no prisons or union work houses and wonders why money should be given so the poor can have a donation of meat and drink. He says that his taxes already pay for prisons and work houses and when First Collector says some of the poor would rather die, Ebenezer says if they did, it would reduce the surplus population.