Education
London School of Economics. University of Westminster.
London School of Economics. University of Westminster.
He lost his seat at the 1950, to the Conservative Henry Hopkinson. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) in 1946. Collins returned to the House of Commons at a by-election in 1954, when he was elected as Member of Parliament for the inner London constituency of Shoreditch and Finsbury, following the death of the Labour Member of Parliament Ernest Thurtle.
He left the Commons and was created a life peer as Baron Stonham, of Earl Stonham in the County of Suffolk on 2 August 1958.
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.
He was appointed as a Privy Counsellor in 1969. He died in Enfield aged 68.
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Born in Whitechapel, London, he was elected at the 1945 general election as Member of Parliament for Taunton, in Somerset.
Victor has been the only Labour Member of Parliament for the Taunton Constituency.