Victor John Collins, Baron Stonham PC (1 July 1903 – 22 December 1971) was a British Labour Party politician.
Born in Whitechapel, London, he was elected at the 1945 general election as Member of Parliament for Taunton, in Somerset. He lost his seat at the 1950, to the Conservative Henry Hopkinson. Victor has been the only Labour Member of Parliament for the Taunton Constituency.
Collins returned to he House of Commons at a by-election in 1954, when he was elected as MP for the inner London constituency of Shoreditch and Finsbury, following the death of the Labour MP Ernest Thurtle.
He left the Commons in August 1958, when he was made a life peer as Baron Stonham, of Earl Stonham in the County of Suffolk. In Harold Wilson's Labour Government 1964-1970, he served as a junior minister at the Home Office from 1964 to 1967, and as Minister of State in the Home Office until 1969. As Minister of State at the Home Office with responsibility for Northern Ireland he made a three day visit there starting on 4 June 1968.[1]
He was appointed as a Privy Counsellor in 1969. He died in Enfield aged 68.
| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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| Preceded by Edward Wickham |
Member of Parliament for Taunton 1945–1950 |
Succeeded by Henry Hopkinson |
| Preceded by Ernest Thurtle |
Member of Parliament for Shoreditch and Finsbury 1954–1958 |
Succeeded by Michael Cliffe |