COLLINGS, JESSE 0831-192o), British politician, was born at Littleham, Exmouth, Devon, on Jan. 9, 1831. In 1866 he settled in Birmingham, where he was intimately associated with Joseph Chamberlain, and in 1878 was elected mayor of Birmingham. In 188o he entered parliament as Liberal member for Ipswich, and became a famous advocate of the Radical land policy, associated with the phrase "three acres and a cow." In 1886 he became parliamentary secretary to the Local Govern ment board, but resigned with Chamberlain over Gladstone's Home Rule policy. In 1895 Collings became under-secretary to the H. ome Office, retaining the post till 1902. He resigned his seat in parliament in 1918, and died at Edgbaston on Nov. 2o, 192o. He was the founder (1872) of the Rural Labourers' League. His works are: Land Reform (1906); The Colonisation of Rural Britain (1914, 2 vols.); and Autobiography, written in conjunc tion with Sir J. L. Green (1920).