Jesse Collings was Mayor of Birmingham, England, a Liberal member of Parliament, but was best known nationally in the UK as an advocate of educational reform and land reform.
Jesse Collings
A caricature of Jesse Collings in Vanity Fair, 1888. The caption was "3 acres and a cow".
The Liberal Unionist Party was a British political party that was formed in 1886 by a faction that broke away from the Liberal Party. Led by Lord Hartington and Joseph Chamberlain, the party established a political alliance with the Conservative Party in opposition to Irish Home Rule. The two parties formed the ten-year-long coalition Unionist Government 1895–1905 but kept separate political funds and their own party organisations until a complete merger between the Liberal Unionist and the Conservative parties was agreed to in May 1912.
The Liberal Unionists' leader, the Duke of Devonshire (1897, NPG).
Gladstone introduces the Home Rule Bill in the House of Commons (1886).
Joseph Chamberlain, head of the "tariff" faction of the party (1896).