Marie Collings | |
|---|---|
| Dame of Sark | |
| In office 1852–1853 | |
| Preceded by | Pierre Carey le Pelley |
| Succeeded by | William Thomas Collings |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Marie Allaire 1791 |
| Died | 1853 (aged 61–62) |
| Spouse | Thomas Guérin Collings |
| Children | William Thomas Collings |
| Parent | John Allaire |
Marie Collings (née Allaire; 1791–1853), sometimes referred to as Mary Collings, was a wealthy Guernsey heiress who ruled as Dame of Sark (island) from 1852 to 1853, being the island's second female ruler and the first holder of the fief from the presently ruling seigneurial family. She inherited the fortune of her father, the privateer John Allaire, who had obtained the mortgage on the fief shortly before his death. The island's then-ruling seigneur, Pierre Carey le Pelley, soon had no option but to sell the fief to Collings, but she never actively governed it.