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[8] and chairman in 1970.[2][9] He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the New Year Honours 1961.[10]
^Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "G" (part 1)
^ abcdStenton, Michael; Lees, Stephens (1981). Who's Who of British Members of Parliament: Volume IV, 1945–1979. Brighton: The Harvester Press. p. 29. ISBN 0-85527-335-6.
^"Obituary: Graham Binns". The Times. 22 May 2003. Retrieved 8 August 2010.
^Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 225. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
^"No. 37238". The London Gazette. 24 August 1945. p. 4294.
^"UK General Election results February 1950". Richard Kimber's political science resources. Archived from the original on 8 March 2017. Retrieved 8 August 2010.
^"Election Items". The Times. 17 February 1950. p. 4.
^"Business appointments". The Times. 2 April 1958. p. 6.
^"Public Work Loan Board Changes". The Times. 5 November 1970. p. 23.
^"No. 42231". The London Gazette (Supplement). 27 December 1960. p. 8898.
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