Ernest Edgar Vyvyan Collocott (7 June 1886 – 9 October 1970) was an Australian Methodist missionary, ethnologist and peace activist.
He was the son of Alice Jane (née Bickford) and Alfred John Collocott, a Methodist missionary in Fiji.
He later completed a Bachelor of Divinity by correspondence through the University of London in 1916 and was awarded the degree of Doctor of Letters by Melbourne in 1928.
[3] He also assisted American anthropologists Edward Winslow Gifford and William C. McKern with their work in Tonga in association with the Bishop Museum.
He had a long association with pro-Soviet organisations, initially with the Friendship with Russia League in the 1930s and later as president of the Democratic Rights Council (DRC), a Communist front.