Victor John Collins, Baron Stonham PC (1 July 1903 - 22 December 1971) was a British Labour Party politician. 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. 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. Wikipedia
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