Jesse Collings (2 December 1831 – 20 November 1920) was Mayor of Birmingham, England, a Liberal (later Liberal Unionist) member of Parliament, but was best known nationally in the UK as an advocate of educational reform and land reform.
Read more about Jesse Collings: Background, Birmingham Town Council, Free Education, Land Reform, Member of Parliament, As A Liberal Unionist, Portrait
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“But the dirty little coward that shot Mister Howard,
He laid poor Jesse in his grave.”
—Unknown. Jesse James (l. Chorus)
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—Sir John Collings Squire (1884–1958)