Joseph Binns
Joseph Binns, CBE (19 March 1900 – 23 April 1975)[1] was a British Labour Party politician.
Binns was the son of Alderman Joseph Binns, who later became Lord Mayor of Manchester.[2] He was educated at elementary schools and at Manchester College of Technology, and became a consulting engineer,[2] working for ICI.[3]
He was a member of Greenwich Borough Council from 1932 to 1949, and was Chairman of the Joint Standing Committee of the Metropolitan Boroughs from 1945 to 1949.[2] At the 1945 general election he was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Gillingham in Kent.[4][5] He was Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister of Supply, John Wilmot, from 1946 to 1947. He was defeated at the 1950 general election,[6] after catching influenza during the campaign,[7] and was never returned to the House of Commons.
Binns was appointed as a Commissioner of the Public Works Loan Board in 1948, a role held until 1972, becoming Deputy Chairman of the board in 1958[7] and Chairman in 1970.[2][8] He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the New Year Honours 1961.[9]
Family
Binns married Daisy Graham in 1924,[2] and they had two sons: Graham and Joseph Christopher.[10] Graham Binns (1925–2003) was a broadcaster and arts campaigner who served for five years as chairman of the British Committee for the Restitution of the Parthenon Marbles.[3] Another son, Joseph Binns (born 1931),[11] was a Labour Party councillor in Greenwich who stood unsuccessfully for Parliament on three occasions: as a Labour candidate in Bromley at the 1964 general election and in his father's old constituency of Gillingham in 1966,[10] and as a Social Democratic Party (SDP) candidate in Birmingham Edgbaston at the 1983 general election.[11]
References
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "G" (part 1)[self-published source][better source needed]
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- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 37238. p. 4294. 24 August 1945. Retrieved 8 August 2010.
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External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Joseph Binns
- Portraits of Joseph Binns at the National Portrait Gallery, London
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| Preceded by | Member of Parliament for Gillingham 1945 – 1950 |
Succeeded by Frederick Burden |
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