Godfrey Collins
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| Secretary of State for Scotland | |
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| Prime Minister | Ramsay MacDonald Stanley Baldwin |
| Preceded by | Archibald Sinclair |
| Succeeded by | Walter Elliot |
| Chief Whip of the Liberal Party | |
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| Deputy | Robert Hutchison |
| Leader | H. H. Asquith |
| Preceded by | Vivian Phillipps |
| Succeeded by | Robert Hutchison |
| Lord Commissioner of the Treasury | |
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| Prime Minister | David Lloyd George |
| Preceded by | John Pratt |
| Succeeded by | William Sutherland |
| Member of Parliament for Greenock | |
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| Preceded by | Halley Stewart |
| Succeeded by | Robert Gibson |
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| Born | Godfrey Pattison Collins Script error: No such module "person date". |
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| Party | National Liberal (1931–1936) |
Other political affiliations | Liberal (Before 1916, 1921–1931) Coalition Liberal (1916–1921)[1] |
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Sir Godfrey Pattison Collins, KBE, CMG, PC (26 June 1875 – 13 October 1936) was a Scottish Liberal Party (and later National Liberal Party) politician.
Early life and career
He entered the Royal Navy in 1888 and was a midshipman, East Indian Station from 1890 to 1893.
Political career
He was elected as Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) for Greenock in 1910 and sat for the constituency until his death (from 1931 as a Liberal National).
He was Parliamentary Private Secretary to J. B. Seely, as Secretary of State for War from 1910 to 1914, and to J. W. Gulland, Chief Liberal Whip from 1915. He served in Egypt, Gallipoli, and Mesopotamia from 1915 to 1917, and was appointed a lieutenant-colonel in September 1916. He was a Junior Lord of the Treasury from 1919 to 1920 and Chief Liberal Whip from November 1924[2] to 1926.[3] From 1932 to 1936 he served as Secretary of State for Scotland.
As Secretary of State, he was responsible for over thirty Bills affecting Scotland, chiefly: a scheme for the creation of smallholdings, the Herring Industry Act of 1935 (establishing the Herring Industry Board), the Illegal Trawling (Scotland) Act, the Education (Scotland) Bill of 1936, which sought to raise the school leaving age to fifteen from 1939, and the Housing (Scotland) Act of 1935, which laid down a statutory standard of overcrowding and sought to effect widespread slum clearances and the building of low-rent accommodation for low-wage earners.
Elections contested
UK Parliament elections
| Date of election | Constituency | Party | Votes | % | Result | |
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| 1910 (Jan) | Greenock | style="background-color: Template:Party color" | | Liberal | 4,233 | 61.7 | Elected |
| 1910 (Dec) | Greenock | style="background-color: Template:Party color" | | Liberal | 4,338 | 59.8 | Elected |
| 1918 | Greenock | style="background-color: Template:Party color" | | Coalition Liberal | 10,933 | 48.0 | Elected[4] |
| 1922 | Greenock | style="background-color: Template:Party color" | | Liberal | 10,520 | 36.6 | Elected[4] |
| 1923 | Greenock | style="background-color: Template:Party color" | | Liberal | 16,337 | 61.3 | Elected[4] |
| 1924 | Greenock | style="background-color: Template:Party color" | | Liberal | 12,752 | 48.6 | Elected[4] |
| 1929 | Greenock | style="background-color: Template:Party color" | | Liberal | 11,190 | 32.5 | Elected[4] |
| 1931 | Greenock | style="background-color: Template:Party color" | | Liberal National | 18,013 | 51.1 | Elected[4] |
| 1935 | Greenock | style="background-color: Template:Party color" | | Liberal National | 20,299 | 52.7 | Elected[4] |
Personal life
He was appointed a CMG in 1917, KBE in 1919 and a Privy Counsellor in 1932.
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Sir G. Collins Leaves Coalition Liberals". Western Gazette. 13 May 1921. p. 12. Retrieved 21 April 2026.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Sir Godfrey Collins As Chief Liberal Whip". The Glasgow Herald. 8 November 1924. p. 9. Retrieved 15 April 2026.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."CHIEF WHIP RESIGNS FROM LIBERAL PARTY; Sir Godfrey Collins Follows Lord Oxford's Example -- Conservatives Appoint Davidson". New York Times. London, UK. 5 November 1926. Retrieved 15 April 2026.
- ^ a b c d e f g Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Craig, Fred W. S (1969). British parliamentary election results, 1918-1949. Political Reference Publications. ISBN 0900178019. Retrieved 5 April 2025.
- Torrance, David, The Scottish Secretaries (Birlinn 2006)
- Pottinger, George, The Secretaries of State For Scotland, 1926-1976 (Scottish Academic Press, 1979)
External links
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