WELL-KNOWN POLITICIAN RETIRING.
BT. HOX. JESSE COLLIXGS. By Telegraph—Pj«is Association—CoDJTisto London, January 10. Tiio Ridit Hon. Jesse Collings, Unionist member for the Bordesley division of Birmingham, is resigning at tho general election.
The Eight Hoe. Jesse Colling? was head of the firm of Colling' and AValli;, merchants, of Birmingham, and retired in IST?. He was Mayor of Birminjham from IS7S to 1579. M.F. for Ipswich from ISSO till ISSe. Parliamentary Secretary for Local Government iSSG, Magistrnte for Birmingham, founder and president of the Rural "Labourers' League, was chairman of the Tree Libraries Commission, and governor of King Edward's Grammar SchDcl. He is ens of the founders and honorarv secretary of the National Education L'ague, ami one of the founders of the Devon and Kxeter Boys-' Industrial School. He moved .-.ud carried the Small EoMinrs Amendment io the Address which caused" the resignation of Lord Salisbury's Government, January, ISS6. Mr. '"oliinrs v.a= I'niifr-Secreiary of State for the Home Office from 159u to 1902. He has published a book on "Land Reform."
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1963, 21 January 1914, Page 7
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170WELL-KNOWN POLITICIAN RETIRING. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1963, 21 January 1914, Page 7
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